0 past simple and past participle of decree
1 to officially decide or order that something must happen:
[ + that ] After the earthquake, the government decreed that all new buildings must be built according to the new standards.
They decreed an end to discrimination on grounds of age.
Their official status was decreed in 1961 and has thus far been observed scrupulously.
He ordered an examination of the situation, and decreed that pensions were to be reduced if they were excessive.
I abolished all such practices and decreed that ceremonies should in future be held modestly and inostentatiously.
He certainly submitted to the decreed punishment quietly, but he also defied them.
The issue is whether the decreed minimum sum would be adequate to finance retirement consumption.
Beyond this royal privilege the rabbis decreed that relations even with one's bride are forbidden until the marriage benedictions have been pronounced.
It decreed that families who did not construct water closets in their newly built huts would not receive a permit to move into their homes.
Therefore, he decreed, by means of explicit assumption, that everyone would live on dividend income, thus maximizing the possibility of spatial mobility.
