Hypertext Webster Gateway: "decreeing"
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.
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