Definition of decree

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Decree (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.

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Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
Will :: Will (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
Decretorily :: Decretorily (adv.) In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Fatality :: Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Decreed :: Decreed (imp. & p. p.) of Decre.
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
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..
Act :: Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress..
Placit :: Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.
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..
Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
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..
Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects..
Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Not decreed.
Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..
Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate..
Rescission :: Rescission (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment..
Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
Decree :: Decree (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision..
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