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decreeing
Word definitions for decreeing in dictionaries
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vb. (present participle of decree English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decree \De*cree"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decreed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Decreeing .] 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 ...
Usage examples of decreeing.
Speech of Robespierre in the name of the commune: "After the people have saved the country, after decreeing a National Convention to replace you, what remains for you to do but to gratify their wishes?
Whereupon, on the Convention decreeing piece-work, the pretended workers fall back on their equality, remind it that they had risen on the 10th of August, and wish to massacre the commissioners.
Then he was speaking an elder elven tongue, thick and stilted, in a court where the male elves knelt in silks before warrior-maidens clad in armor that glowed with strange magics, and he heard himself decreeing a war of extermination on humankind.
Oh, I've heard that you plan to set all of us lords in stewardÂship over the forest, decreeing which tree shall be touched, and which shall stand.
Oh, I've heard that you plan to set all of us lords in stewardship over the forest, decreeing which tree shall be touched, and which shall stand.
This comes of choosing the site of a new city, and decreeing that it shall be built on this or on that spot.