Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Decree   /dɪkrˈi/   Listen
noun
Decree  n.  
1.
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. "The decrees of Venice." "There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." "Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?"
2.
(Law)
(a)
A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
(b)
A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
3.
(Eccl.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Synonyms: Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law.


verb
Decree  v. t.  (past & past part. decreed; pres. part. decreeing)  
1.
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. "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."
2.
To ordain by fate.


Decree  v. i.  To make decrees; used absolutely. "Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Decree" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not leave it, for to-day something seemed to tell her that it was meant that she should suffer, and she bowed in spirit to the decree. ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... dear dissemblers, that you always seem to enter the holy state with either reluctance or lukewarm indifference? when every body, with half a head, knows that matrimony is the "hoc erat in votis," the grand object of all your wishes. Strange! that the laws of female modesty should decree it absolute indelicacy for a girl candidly to show her preference for a particular individual before the rest of his sex. Strange! that modern mothers should uniformly caution their daughters against ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... "punish you. Yourself you have framed your punishment!" And he exposes how by forgetting the whole duty of a Valkyrie—to deal victory or defeat according to Wotan's decree—she had made herself in effect no longer a Valkyrie. "No more shall I send you from Walhalla.... No longer shall you bring warriors to my hall.... From the tribe of the gods you are cut off, rejected from the eternal line.... ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... decree (also adopted by other German states) forbidding the emigration of German citizens to Brazil. In 1896 it was revoked for the three most southern states of Brazil, i.e., Rio Grande do Sul, ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
... thou that I will so soon change my decree? No, no, friend Moses, so light thou shalt not find me. I will punish them all; ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com