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DECREE, n. L. To judge to divide.

1. Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause as a decree of the court of chancery. The decision of a court of equity is called a decree that of a court of law, a judgment.

2. In the law, a determination or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties.

3. An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.

4. In general, an order, edict or law made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors.

There went a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2

5. Established law, or rule.

He made a decree for the rain. Job 28

6. In theology, predetermined purpose of God the purpose or determination of an immutable Being, whose plan of operations is, like himself, unchangeable.

DECREE,

1. To determine judicially to resolve by sentence as, the court decreed that the property should be restored or they decreed a restoration of the property.

2. To determine or resolve legislatively to fix or appoint to set or constitute by edict or in purpose.

Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established. Job 22

Let us not be solicitous to know what God has decreed concerning us.