Decreed
[dɪ'kriːd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Decree
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Examples
- 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.
- But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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