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  • English Word Decree Definition To ordain by fate.
  • English Word Decree Definition To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
  • English Word Decreeable Definition Capable of being decreed.
  • English Word Decreed Definition of Decree
  • English Word Decreeing Definition of Decree
  • English Word Decreer Definition One who decrees.
  • English Word Decreet Definition The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
  • English Word Decrement Definition The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
  • English Word Decrement Definition The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
  • English Word Decrement Definition A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
  • English Word Decrement Definition The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
  • English Word Decrepit Definition Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
  • English Word Decrepitate Definition To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
  • English Word Decrepitate Definition To crackle, as salt in roasting.
  • English Word Decrepitated Definition of Decrepitate
  • English Word Decrepitating Definition of Decrepitate
  • English Word Decrepitation Definition The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
  • English Word Decrepitness Definition Decrepitude.
  • English Word Decrepitude Definition The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
  • English Word Decrescendo Definition With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
  • English Word Decrescent Definition Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
  • English Word Decrescent Definition A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
  • English Word Decretal Definition Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.
  • English Word Decretal Definition An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
  • English Word Decretal Definition The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
  • English Word Decrete Definition A decree.
  • English Word Decretion Definition A decrease.
  • English Word Decretist Definition One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
  • English Word Decretive Definition Having the force of a decree; determining.
  • English Word Decretorial Definition Decretory; authoritative.