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To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

Antecedent decree or determination. Shak.

To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death. Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction. Milton.

adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the…

n; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Milton. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

evoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree. Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

erly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.

uperior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.

en formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree. In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number. Hare.

The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree. Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet's regal sound the great result. Milton.

sion; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree. Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°, and is held as in the illustration. -- To reverse an engine or a machine, to cause it to perf…

Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney.

oceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled. Wharton. -- Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.

emand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.

Dictate; command; decree. [Obs.] [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw. Spenser.

A decree of the Roman senate.

To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] Shak.