单词 | decree |
释义 | decreen. 1. An ordinance or edict set forth by the civil or other authority; an authoritative decision having the force of law. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute doomc825 i-setnessec900 setnessc950 edict1297 statutec1300 purveyancea1325 assize1330 ordinancec1330 decreetc1374 constitutionc1380 decree?a1400 sizea1400 stablementc1400 edictionc1470 stablishment1473 ordinationc1499 estatutea1514 placarda1530 prescript1532 golden bull1537 rescript1545 institute1546 institution1551 constitutec1561 sanction1570 decretal1588 ordain1596 decretum1602 invention1639 scite1656 dispositive1677 bull1696 ordonnance1702 subnotation1839 senatus consultum1875 fatwa1989 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance setnessc950 sandc1000 edict1297 statutec1300 proclamationa1325 justifyinga1382 rescritec1384 decree?a1400 thewsc1400 justification?a1475 ordinationc1499 dictamena1513 golden bull1537 dictate1604 process1604 dictament1615 dictation1651 fiata1750 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. 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.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of decree1303 decretalc1330 cretalc1380 society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of > one of decree1303 decretalc1330 sanction1570 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > decree decree1570 decretal1588 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > a judgement, ruling doomc825 judging1357 verdictc1386 determination1395 judgement?a1400 skillc1400 decision1467 date1488 arrest1509 resolution1545 pronouncement1593 resultance1610 decreea1642 placit1641 pronounce1641 placitum1649 vardy1738 deliverance1856 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court judgement?a1300 rulinga1382 deliverance1385 sentencec1386 laudc1465 judiciala1500 arrest1509 interlocutor1533 finding1581 fatwa1625 decreea1642 arrêtc1650 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 order1557 interdict1611 interlocutory1620 interlocution1706 rule nisi1738 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. ΚΠ 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. 1. a. transitive. To command (something) by decree; to order, appoint, or assign authoritatively, ordain. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint asetc885 teachc897 deemc900 ashapea1000 i-demeOE setc1000 shiftc1000 stevenOE redeOE willOE lookc1175 showc1175 stablea1300 devise1303 terminea1325 shapec1330 stightlea1375 determinec1384 judgea1387 sign1389 assize1393 statute1397 commanda1400 decree1399 yarka1400 writec1405 decreetc1425 rule1447 stallc1460 constitute1481 assignc1485 institute1485 prescribec1487 constitue1489 destinate1490 to lay down1493 make?a1513 call1523 plant1529 allot1532 stint1533 determ1535 appointa1538 destinec1540 prescrive1552 lot1560 fore-appoint1561 nominate1564 to set down1576 refer1590 sort1592 doom1594 fit1600 dictate1606 determinate1636 inordera1641 state1647 fix1660 direct1816 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > predestine shapea1000 fordighta1400 foredestinea1400 forecast1413 decree1593 fore-read1617 foredoom1674 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. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > order judicially judgea1325 discernc1425 rule1425 sentencec1503 decree1530 award1533 decerna1575 sententiate1593 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb] willOE ordain1340 deemc1400 delibera1413 machine?c1450 order?1523 decree1526 deliberate1550 fix1788 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command or give orders [verb (intransitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint skiftc1325 disposec1384 disponea1500 stint1533 decree1591 prescribec1595 devise1606 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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