• (British) IPA: /dɪˈkɹiː/

decree (plural decrees)

1. An edict or law.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 2:1 ↗:

     There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗:

     Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?

2. (legal) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
3. (legal) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.

• French: décret
• German: Erlass, Dekret, Verordnung
• Italian: decreto, ordinanza
• Portuguese: decreto
• Russian: ука́з
• Spanish: decreto

• German: Verfügung, Beschluss, Entscheid, Gerichtsentscheid
• Portuguese: decreto
• Spanish: decreto, ordenanza

decree (decrees, present participle decreeing; past and past participle decreed)

1. To command by a decree.

   A court decrees a restoration of property.

   • Bible, Job xxii. 28

     Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.

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