0 past simple and past participle of decree
1 to officially decide or order that something must happen:
They decreed an end to discrimination on grounds of age.
[ + that ] After the earthquake, the government decreed that all new buildings must be built according to the new standards.
This suggests that it is more appropriate to raise the decreed minimum sum for the female elderly by about $6,000 more.
It encourages people to submit to what is decreed, to comply.
In provisionary transitions, the electoral law in question is the one decreed by the provisional government.
First it reduces divine knowledge of physically necessitated events to knowledge of divinely decreed events.
The strength of metropolitan modernity decreed that the modern building may be planned and built.
A state of siege was decreed in the states controlled by rebels, rapidly extended to the entire country.
The provincial government decreed that the city would be provided with the very latest innovations of art and science.
Therefore, he decreed, by means of explicit assumption, that everyone would live on dividend income, thus maximizing the possibility of spatial mobility.
