Hypertext Webster Gateway: "decreed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Decree \De*cree"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decreed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {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. --Job xxii.
28.

2. To ordain by fate.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

decreed
adj : fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the
time appointed (or the appointed time") [syn: {appointed},
{ordained}, {prescribed}]


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