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• The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.From the entry nisi
• All able-bodied men of a certain age were subject to conscription by royal decree.From the entry of a certain age
• Unless it was decreed royally, it never got done.From the entry royally
• Dominguans to accept the decree, the merchants described a revolution whose logic was universal and irrefutable.2016, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies…. From the entry St. Dominguan
• The old man had style, making up his own laws, and decreeing who lived and who died.2015, Dan Williams, chapter 24, in The Lords of Absence, Temple, Tex.; Dallas, Tex.: Ink Brush Press, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry bloodspiller
• Under the Taipings, the Chinese language was simplified, and equality between men and women was decreed.2014, Taiping Rebellion, Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry Taiping
• The original play on words here is between furlani (decree) and hurlani (date).1988, Linda S. Myrsiades, The Karagiozis Heroic Performance in Greek Shadow Theater, University Press of New England, page 234. From the entry play on words
• Under the decree, the city agrees to establish mayor-City Council form of goverment.1985 July 28, Robert Pear, “THE NATION; RESHAPING A CITY GOVERMENT”, in The New York Times. From the entry goverment
• Sartre decrees that Gustave was never homosexual; merely passive and feminine in his psychology.1984, Julian Barnes, chapter 7, in Flaubert’s Parrot, New York: Vintage, published 1990. From the entry salacity
• "I will not undecree that decree," said the King, very angry by this time.1959, Children's Activities, volume 25, page 41. From the entry undecree
• Hence, while preserving his autocratic power, the Czar decrees a “Gosudarstvennaia Duma,” or State Council.1905, “Russian Duma” in The Outlook Volume 80, 989. From the entry duma
• Lieberman was the first stage of the Hadrianic persecutions before the "decrees of destruction" (gezeirot hashmad) during the Bar Kokhba rebellion.2024, David Golinkin, “Are Thee Ways Of Hidinng A Mezuzah In Times Of Danger?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 208. From the entry Hadrianic
• In any event, the law calling for the Peruvianization of the banks was decreed a few weeks later.”2015, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski-Godard, Peruvian Democracy under Economic Stress: An Account of the Belaunde Administration, 1963-1968…. From the entry Peruvianization
• Harries stresses the rescriptive character of many imperial decrees, responding to appeals rather than initiating law making .2013, Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors, page 11. From the entry rescriptive
• Society decrees you useless for preservation of the species.2011, Yuri Kageyama, The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till Now, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company/Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 107–108. From the entry obasan
• It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew.2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29. From the entry Dongguan
• And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.2003, Dina Mehta, Mila in Love, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry Mila
• The zoetrope span smoothly, time’s Chief Designer narrowed the legs of trousers and decreed that the cars should be more aerodynamic.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun. From the entry zoetrope
• Other decrees relating to koinons give them security from taxes or from being drafted for military service in foreign states.1990, Wesley D. Smith, “Introduction”, in Hippocrates: Pseudepigraphic Writings, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, section “The Speeches and Medical…. From the entry koinon
• They died to decree that government of and by and for the PEOPLE (identity undefined) should never perish.1976, Akros, page 56. From the entry perisher
• Under a January 29 divorce decree, Mrs.“Mr. & Mrs.”, in Jet, volume 23, number 26, 18 April 1963, page 48. From the entry pony keg station
• It was simply a certified copy of the decree in the divorce case of a prominent society woman, Mrs.1913 June 7, Rupert Hughes, “Memling Must Have an Alibi”, in The Popular Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 160. From the entry corespondent
• If this does not happen, the gesith of Katla has decreed his place and its inhabitants be seen as invaders and dealt with as such.2021, L. L. Nelson [pseudonym; Laura Nelson], chapter 2, in Thegn of Svartån, [United States]: Nelding & Michcomb Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry overmorrow
• 'Anyone is a Tupamaro if he does not merely make demands but disobeys the laws, decrees and ordinances made by an oligarchy to their interests'.2017 July 5, Jennifer S. Holmes, Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry Tupamaro
• It was a disaster for Dionysius, but the citizens of Thurii, saved by the god Boreas, passed a decree granting citizenship to the wind.2000, Giulia Sissa with Marcel Detienne, “When the Olympians Donned the Citizen's Costume”, in Janet Lloyd, transl., The Daily Life of the…. From the entry boreas
• Can the polysemic and nomadic meanings of a text such as the Qur'an overcome the unbewised efforts to reduce it to monologic decree?1990, Dennis J. Schmidt, Hermeneutics and the Potic Motion. From the entry unbewised
• Insecure about his infirmity, the Bashaw decreed that all who desired to come into his presence must first submit to having their eyes put out.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 7. From the entry bashaw
• The opinion in United States v du Pont does not, in any event, render the term "acquiring" in a consent decree a term of art.1975, “United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co.”, in United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, page…. From the entry term of art
• President Franklin Roosevelt loved Camp Pendleton, and decreed that the old ranch house . . . should be preserved for the ages.1968 March 12, John Chamberain, “The People's General Risks His Stars”, in Evening Independent, retrieved 12 Sep 2013. From the entry for the ages
• Under this view, where the nonadoptability is discovered after a termination decree has been granted, the decree would be subject to revocation.1960, Edith Glicksman Neisser, George H. Weber, Helen Rankin Jeter, Phenylketonuria, page 13. From the entry nonadoptability
• Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches.1957 June, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 423. From the entry unsentimental
• The curfew decree comes as the latest of a list of steadily tightening home front controls ordered since the German breakthru in Belgium.1945 February 20, “Byrnes Clamps War Curfew on Amusement”, in Tribune, Tribune. From the entry breakthru
• It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.1917, William Herbert Freestone, The Sacrament Reserved: A Survey of the Practice of Reserving the Eucharist, with Special Reference to…. From the entry eulogia
• That is, in both subtle and blatant ways, utterances report, assert, confirm, claim, doubt, deny, imply, suggest, hint, request, command, forbid, humorize, belittle, pronounce, decree, and so on.2016 December 8, Robert W. Schrauf, Mixed Methods: Interviews, Surveys, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN. From the entry humorize
• The brewing conflict between locals and the whalers prompted then-sheriff Ari Magnússon to draw up a decree that allowed Basques to be killed with impunity in the district.2015 April 29, Ashifa Kassam, “Basques safe in Iceland as district repeals decree to kill them on sight”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry whaler
• But anyone making the ginchy pilgrimage will find a series of sidewalk tiles here solemnly decreeing that, yes, 77 Sunset Strip was filmed on this site.2013, Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus, California Babylon. From the entry ginchy
• As secretary a young man with a “mobile identity” since his anagraphic data such as his second surname will change in relation to the linguistic decrees of the birthplace.2013, Francisco Vicente Cipolla-Ficarra, Advanced Research and Trends in New Technologies, Software, Human-Computer Interaction, and…. From the entry anagraphic
• Defendants also had "ample opportunity to propose incorporation" of a provision in the decree prohibiting or limiting the FPA from superfunding the area outside the Box.2006, Environment Reporter: Cases, page 1662. From the entry superfund

Meaning of decree

1. noun An edict or law.
2. noun The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
3. noun The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.

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How do you use decree in a sentence?

Decree is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A court decrees a restoration of property.”

What is a short sentence with decree?

“A court decrees a restoration of property.”

What does decree mean?

Decree means an edict or law.