decideth

Verb

decide (third-person singular simple present decides, present participle deciding, simple past and past participle decided)

1. (ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
   • The election will be decided on foreign policies.

   Synonyms:

   choose, determine, pick, elect, accept, adopt, appoint, cast, crave, designate

2. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
   • You must decide between good and evil.

   Synonyms:

   judge, make up one's mind

3. (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision.
   • Your admonition decided me against my intended course of action.
4. Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
   • No Turing Machine can decide the halting problem.
5. (obsolete) To cut off; to separate.
   • Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   divorce, sever, sunder, becut, discerp, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, divide, divvy up