Decree
[dɪ'kriː] or [dɪ'kri]
Definition
(noun.) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); 'a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there'.
(verb.) issue a decree; 'The King only can decree'.
Edited by Cheryl--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
(n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
(n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
(v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
(v. t.) To ordain by fate.
(v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Editor: Luke
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Ordain, appoint, determine.
v. a. Order, ordain, appoint, enjoin, command.
n. Edict, enactment, regulation, law, order, mandate, fiat, ordinance, statute.
Edited by Aaron
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decision, determination, mandate, law, edict, manifesto, rule, verdict, order,judgment, ordinance, proclamation
ANT:Cue, hint, suggestion, intimation, request
Checked by Joseph
Definition
n. an order by one in authority: an edict or law: a judicial decision: a predetermined purpose.—v.t. to decide or determine by sentence in law: to appoint.—v.i. to make a decree:—pr.p. decree′ing; pa.p. decreed′.—adjs. Decree′able capable of being decreed; Decrē′tive having the force of a decree; Dec′rētory Decretō′rial established by a decree: determining: judicial.—Decree nisi (L. nisi unless) a decree that becomes absolute unless cause be shown to the contrary—granted esp. in divorce cases.
Edited by Ingram
Examples
- Such the decree of the High Ruler from whom there is no appeal: to whom I submit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But another decree was written. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What is this decree that the smith spoke of? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A strict divorce law might be like New York's: it would recognize few grounds for a decree. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is simply that the reality of a revolution is not in a political decree or the scarehead of a newspaper, but in the experiences, feelings, habits of myriads of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This very evening he had again stooped, gazed, and decreed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That, as they were not so decreed, he probably would not have one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And they chuckled inwardly at the idea of the workmen's discomfiture and defeat, in their attempt to alter one iota of what Thornton had decreed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She had decreed you the first prize in her wheel--twenty thousand pounds; she only required that you should hold your hand out and take it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed, For him who farthest sends the winged reed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It decreed that no member of the Assembly should be an executive minister. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sitting down before this dark comforter, I presently fell into a deep argument with myself on life and its chances, on destiny and her decrees. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, continued the tall man, we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But there are no such decrees yet? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My sister was struck by my narrative: How beyond the imagination of man, she exclaimed, are the decrees of heaven, wondrous and inexplicable! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: 'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Selma