0 present 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.
However, this lies at odds with separate municipal policy decreeing the location an important strategic site with potential for mixed use development.
He also imposed discipline and often cooperation among riders, once famously decreeing that there will be no attacks today because tomorrow's stage will be difficult.
He throws a ruby into the sky, decreeing that the first of his fratricidal sons to recover it will be the new king.
A court of equity in decreeing a constructive trust is bound by no unyielding formula.
In a revolt of his vassals he intervened to bring peace among them, decreeing the confiscation of rebel property.
The petition resulted in the conference decreeing the creation of the monument to victims of repressions.
Does he mean retroactively decreeing that everyone serving a given sentence shall be deemed to have been sentenced to half that term, with some prisoners due for release?
They seem to be decreeing that this should be the end of long leases, no matter how or when they were arrived at, between whom, or under what circumstances.
