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Decreed

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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decreed

vb. (en-past of: decree)

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decreed

adj. fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time") [syn: appointed, ordained, prescribed]

Usage examples of "decreed".

Cornelius was commissioned to select the city and territory for them, where he thought best, and 400 jugera in the same district were also decreed as a gift to Belligenes through whose instrumentality Moericus had been induced to change sides.

They had tried to destroy the temple of Vesta, with its perpetual fire, and the image which was concealed in the sacred shrine - that image which Fate had decreed to be the pledge and guarantee of Roman dominion.

It was further decreed that the populations of Capua, Atella, Calatia and the valley of the Sabatus should all retain their liberty, except those who themselves, or whose parents had been with the enemy, but none of them could become a Roman citizen or a member of the Latin League.

The pontiffs decreed that these portents should be expiated by the sacrifice of oxen.

The senate decreed a three days' thanksgiving "because the consuls, M.

A solemn thanksgiving was decreed on their behalf, and each of them was allowed to enjoy a triumph.

To the latter was decreed the province of Etruria with the standing army there.

It was decreed that a five days' thanksgiving should be offered at all the shrines and a hundred and twenty full-grown victims sacrificed.

In spite of this the senate decreed that the two consuls should ballot, and Africa was drawn by Ti.

He gave out that he would not allow any business to be transacted until Africa had been decreed to him as his province.

Minucius Thermus and Manlius Acilius Glabrio - declared that Cnaeus Cornelius was attempting to do what Tiberius Claudius had failed to do, and that after the senate had authorised the question of the supreme command in Africa to be referred to the Assembly, the thirty-five tribes had unanimously decreed it to Scipio.

It was further decreed that if any one should in future introduce any measure calculated to brand Philip with ignominy the Athenians should at once adopt it, and if any one by word or deed tried to vindicate him or do him honour the man who slew him would be justified in doing so.

Flaccus asked that this condition might be waived in his case and the senate decreed that if an aedile should provide some one, with the approval of the consuls, to take the oaths for him, the consuls might if they thought good arrange with the tribunes for the matter to be referred to the plebs.

In consequence of complaints made by representatives from Ardea that the customary portions of the victims sacrificed on the Alban Mount had not been given to that city, the pontiffs decreed that the Latin Festival should be held afresh.

And the gods decreed that though its founder did not utter idle words in declaring that posterity would thither bear their spoils, still the splendour of that offering should not be dimmed by the number of those who have rivalled his achievement.