资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Decree \De*cree"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decreed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Decreeing}.]
   1. To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to
      constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to
      determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a
      restoration of property.

            Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
            established unto thee.                --Job xxii.
                                                  28.

   2. To ordain by fate.