Definition of decree

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Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

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Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree..
Pragmatic :: Pragmatic (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Decerniture :: Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..
Execute :: Execute (v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process..
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree..
Foredoom :: Foredoom (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
Rogation :: Rogation (n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree..
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Fatality :: Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
Firman :: Firman (n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance..
Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
Decreer :: Decreer (n.) One who decrees.
Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..
Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
Condemnatory :: Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree..
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
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