Word Meanings - DECREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

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• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• ISSUER
  One who issues, emits, or publishes.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• DECIDUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being deciduous.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• DECIDEDLY
  In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.