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单词 decree
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decreen.

/dɪˈkriː/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s decre.
Etymology: < Old French decré, variant of decret (in plural decrez , decres ) = Provençal decret , Spanish decreto , Italian decreto , < Latin dēcrētum , substantive use of neuter of dēcrētus , past participle of dēcernĕre to decree: see decern v.
1. An ordinance or edict set forth by the civil or other authority; an authoritative decision having the force of law.
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society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute
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subnotation1839
senatus consultum1875
fatwa1989
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance
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diktat1941
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 2999 At London þei wer atteynt, decre was mad for þate.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1745 Þen watz demed a de-cre bi þe duk seluen.
1483 Cath. Angl. 92 A Decree, decretum.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 101 There is no force in the decrees of Venice. View more context for this quotation
1637 (title) A Decree of the Starre-Chamber concerning Printing.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 96 The dire Decrees Of hard Euristheus. View more context for this quotation
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 639 The Constituent Assembly..abolished, by it's decree of September 1791, the justice which it had done to persons of colour in the Antilles.
1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 140 This report was sanctioned by a decree of the assembly.
1851 Ld. Tennyson To Queen ix To take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet By shaping some august decree.
figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 18 The braine may deuise lawes for the blood, but a hote temper leapes ore a colde decree . View more context for this quotation1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 58 Whether by Nature's Curse, Or Fates Decree . View more context for this quotation
2. Ecclesiastical Law. An edict or law of an ecclesiastical council, usually one settling some disputed or doubtful point of doctrine or discipline; in plural the collection of such laws and decisions, forming part of the canon law. (Cf. decretal adj. and n.)
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of > one of
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4640 Hyt ys forbode hym, yn þe decre, Myracles for to make or se.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 373 Doctoures of decres and of diuinite Maistres.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 257 The pope..hath made and yove the decre.
1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 95 Master Morgan Johns, bachelor of decrees.
1564 (title) A godly and necessarie Admonition of the Decrees and Canons of the Counsel of Trent.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 20 He was..admitted to the extraordinary reading of any Book of the Decretals, that is to the degree of Bach. of Decrees, which some call the Canon Law.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani p. xxxvii A Decree is an Ordinance which is enacted by the Pope himself, by and with the advice of his Cardinals in Council assembled, without being consulted by any one thereon.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 189/1 The king and the queen-mother promised..that they would accept the decrees of the Council [of Trent].
1893 P. T. Forsyth in Faith & Criticism 106 If that infallibility be carried beyond Himself..there is no logical halting-place till we arrive at the Vatican Decrees.
3. Theology. One of the eternal purposes of God whereby events are foreordained.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > decree
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1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 1 All the Deuils deepe in hell, at his decrees doe quake.
1648 Assembly's Larger Catech. Q. 12 God's Decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will, whereby from all eternity, he hath, for his own glory, unchangeably fore-ordained whatsoever comes to passe in time.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 108 in Wks. (1721) II. Her Conscience tells her God's Decree Full option gave, and made her free.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 4 Philip stood enfeoffed, by divine decree, of..possessions far and near.
4. Law. A judicial decision. In various specific uses:
a. Roman Law. A decision given by the emperor on a question brought before him judicially.
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1776–81 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xliv The rescripts of the emperor, his grants and decrees, his edicts and pragmatic sanctions, were subscribed in purple ink.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 3 An imperial constitution is what the emperor has established by decree, edict, or letter. It has never been disputed that such a constitution has the full force of a lex.
b. English Law. The judgement of a court of equity, or of the Court of Admiralty, Probate, and Divorce. But since the Judicature Act of 1873–5, the term ‘judgement’ is applied to the decisions of courts having both common law and equity powers.Decree is still used in Admiralty cases. In divorce cases, a decree is an order of the Court declaring the nullity of dissolution of marriage, or the judicial separation of the parties. decree nisi: the order made by the court for divorce, which remains conditional for at least six months, after which, unless cause to the contrary is shown, it is made absolute. In Ecclesiastical Law, decree is a special form of citation of the party to the suit.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > a judgement, ruling
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > conditional court order
decree nisi1860
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision other than final judgement
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decree nisi1860
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) v. 231 A Decree is..only a Sentence or Judgement in a Court of Justice, delivered or declared by the Judges there.
1735 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 39 But two Causes, and both by Consent, have been brought to a Decree.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 451 When all are heard, the court pronounces the decree, adjusting every point in debate according to equity and good conscience.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) Courts of equity may adjust their decrees so as to meet different exigencies..whereas courts of common law are bound down to a fixed and invariable form of judgment.
1860 Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 144 §7 Every Decree for a Divorce shall in the first instance be a Decree Nisi, not to be made absolute till after the Expiration of such Time not less than Three Months.., as the Court shall by General or Special Order from Time to Time direct.
1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) Decree Nisi..remains imperfect for at least six months.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 66 §100 In the construction of this Act..the several words herein-after mentioned shall have, or include, the meanings following; (that is to say)..‘Judgment’ shall include Decree.
1873 R. Phillimore Eccl. Law 1254 These decrees or citations are signed by the Registrar of the Court.
1892 Geary Law of Marriage 354 A decree of judicial separation may be subsequently turned into a decree for dissolution.
1893 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 154 The decree I make will be: that the crew, other than the captain, shall receive salvage..according to their ratings.
a1894 Mod. Newspr. A decree nisi was pronounced. The decree was made absolute.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 608 Then the decree nisi and the King's Proctor to show cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute.
1934 A. P. Herbert Holy Deadlock 163 She was a lonely decree-nisi mongrel of a woman.
c. Scots Law. The final judgement or sentence of a civil court, whereby the question at issue between the parties is decided; strictly, a judgement which can be put in force by containing the executive words ‘and decerns’: cf. decerniture n.Decrees are said to be condemnator or absolvitor according as the decision is in favour of the pursuer or the defender. A decree in absence is a decree pronounced against a defender who has not appeared and pleaded on the merits of the cause = ‘Judgement by Default’ in English Common Law. decree of registration is a decree fictione juris of a court, interposed without the actual intervention of a judge, in virtue of the party's consent to a decree going out against him. decree arbitral: an award by one or more arbiters: see arbitral adj. decree dative: see dative adj. 2b. decree of locality, modification, and valuation of teinds: various decisions of the Teind Court. (Bell, Dict. Law Scotl. 1861.) Cf. earlier decreet n. 1b.
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1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iv. iii. 459 Before horning could be issued, on the decree of an inferior judge, the decree behoved, by our former practice, to be judicially produced before the Lords, and their authority interposed to it..by a new decree.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) The decree issued by the Court of Session in aid of the inferior court decree, was called a decree conform.
1877 Æ. J. G. Mackay Pract. Court of Session I. 581 The term decree is now sometimes used interchangeably with interlocutor, though it might be convenient to apply the former to a final determination by which the whole or a substantive part of the cause is decided, and the latter to an order pronounced in its course.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

decreev.

/dɪkriː/
Forms: Also 1500s decre, decrey.
Etymology: < decree n.: compare French décréter, < décret.
1.
a. transitive. To command (something) by decree; to order, appoint, or assign authoritatively, ordain.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint
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1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 424/1 [Their] Commissaries..declared and decreed, and adjugged yowe fore to be deposed and pryved..of the Astate of Kyng.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 14 No partycular mean by cyvyle ordynance decred.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3 The stately triumph we decreed.
a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) iv. ii. 55 Upon the Plain neer Salisbury, A peaceful meeting they decreen.
1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing xi. sig. D3v It is further Ordered and Decreed, that no Merchant, Bookseller..shall imprint..any English bookes [etc.].
1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) ii. i. 15 The King their Father..has decreed His Scepter to the younger.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xii. 13 The English parliaments were..decreeing the dissolution of the smaller monasteries.
1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. iii. i. 309 The cities sent embassies to him, decreeing him public honours.
b. figurative. To ordain as by Divine appointment, or by fate.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > predestine
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1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 49 Wherewith God hath eternally decreed when and howe they should be.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxix. 16 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 193 What thou dost decree.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 301 What is decreed, must be: and be this so. View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 68 For Heaven all-just Hath seen our sufferings and decreed their end.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 111 Give me patience, O Allah, to bear what Thou decreest.
2. Law. †To pronounce judgement on (a cause), decide judicially (obsolete); to order or determine by a judicial decision; to adjudge; absol. to give judgement in a cause.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > order judicially
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 509/1 I shall decree it or it be to morowe noone.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diii/2 To Decree, decernere.
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 112 He decreed the cause not hearing any one wytnesse.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 469 It was decreed to be a resulting trust for the grantor.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 489 Lord Bathurst decreed accordingly.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 7 Mar. 43/1 The Court would not decree specific performance of a contract of service.
3.
a. To decide or determine authoritatively; to pronounce by decree.
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a1571 J. Jewel Serm. Haggai i. 4 Our fathers in the Councill holden at Constance..have decreed..that, to minister the Communion to a lay man under both kinds, is an open heresie.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 116 Whatsoever that Assembly shall Decree.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. ii. 232 The Third Estate is decreeing that it is, was, and will be, nothing but a National Assembly.
b. to decree (a person) for: to put him down as, pronounce him to be. Obsolete. rare.
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1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iv. sig. G2v Such a Coxecome, such a whining Asse, as you decreed me for when I was last heere.
4. To determine, resolve, decide (to do something). Obsolete or archaic.
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the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb]
willOE
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1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDviiiv Decreyng with them selfe..to beare and suffre all thynges.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. iii. 31 I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 132 When thou hast decreed to seize their Stores. View more context for this quotation
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. viii, in Misc. III. 343 Here we decreed to rest and dine.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems viii. 17 Who decrees to live thine own?
5. absol. or intransitive. To decide, determine, ordain.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command or give orders [verb (intransitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint
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1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints vi. 11 So did the Gods by heavenly doome decree.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 98 As the destinies decrees . View more context for this quotation
1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 6 Laws..decreed of in the fields [of battle].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 172 As my Eternal purpose hath decreed . View more context for this quotation

Derivatives

deˈcreed adj.
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society > law > legislation > [adjective] > ordaining by decree > ordained by decree
decreed1548
decreeted1720
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Phil. in Paraphr. New Test. ii. (R.) Suche was the decreed wyll of the father.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xxi. 242 Hee laboured by the law of Sulpitius to take from Sulla his decreed employment.
deˈcreeing n. and adj.
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society > law > legislation > [noun] > making decrees, edicts, or statutes
decreement1570
decreeing1591
statuting1843
society > law > legislation > [adjective] > ordaining by decree
decretal1679
decreeing1878
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 35 Bereft of both by Fates vniust decreeing.
1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 133 The decreeing and executing Power not being combined.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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