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decreed


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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