Definition of decree

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

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Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
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..
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..
Foredoom :: Foredoom (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
Will :: Will (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.
Abolition :: Abolition (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc..
Absolutism :: Absolutism (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
Protestant :: Protestant (v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church..
Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..
Foredetermine :: Foredetermine (v. t.) To determine or decree beforehand.
Confated :: Confated (p.a.) Fated or decreed with something else.
Injunction :: Injunction (n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
Emit :: Emit (v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit..
Arret :: Arret (n.) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign..
Reversed :: Reversed (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree..
Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
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