Associations to the word «Decree»
Noun
- Edict
- Synod
- Expulsion
- Ordinance
- Athenian
- Pius
- Abolition
- Trent
- Pope
- Amnesty
- Fate
- Inquisition
- Vatican
- Junta
- Peso
- Clergy
- Consul
- Conformity
- Consent
- Conscription
- Almighty
- Accordance
- Chancery
- Tsar
- Justinian
- Canon
- Proclamation
- Boniface
- Heretic
- Legate
- Senate
- Charlemagne
- Tribunal
- Cleric
- Sanction
- Rabbinic
- Divorce
- Xvi
- Lenin
- Reich
- Cato
- Emperor
- Pharaoh
- Jews
- Heresy
- Pompey
- Hitler
- Congregation
- Monarch
- Constitution
- Majesty
- Dissolution
- Xiii
- Council
- Schism
- Deputy
- Prohibition
- Liturgy
- Dowager
- Exchequer
- Execution
- Emancipation
- Imperial
- Provisional
- Napoleon
- Auditor
Adjective
Wiktionary
DECREE, noun. An edict or law.
DECREE, noun. (legal) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
DECREE, noun. (legal) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
DECREE, verb. To command by a decree.
DECREE ABSOLUTE, noun. (legal) the official decree marking the legal end of a marriage, allowing the two people to remarry; it follows the decree nisi after six weeks (in Britain)
DECREE ARBITRAL, noun. (Scotland) (legal) An award made by an arbiter
DECREE NISI, noun. (legal) a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not
Dictionary definition
DECREE, 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".
DECREE, verb. Issue a decree; "The King only can decree".
DECREE, verb. Decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.