Word Meanings - UNDECREED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:

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• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• DECRETORIAL
  Decretory; authoritative. Sir T. Browne.
• DECREASING
  Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
• DECRETORILY
  In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
• DECREW
  To decrease. Spenser.
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• DECREE
  An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. Syn. -- Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law. (more info) decretus, p. p. of decernere to decide;
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• DECRETION
  A decrease. Pearson.
• DECREASELESS
  Suffering no decrease. It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward.
• DECREPITUDE
  The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
• DECREET
  The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
• DECRESCENT
  Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
• DECREASE
  To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. John
• DECRETIVE
  Having the force of a decree; determining. The will of God is either decretive or perceptive. Bates.
• DECRETE
  A decree. Chaucer.
• DECREPIT
  Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. (more info) noiseless,
• DECRETIST
  One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
• DECREATION
  Destruction; -- opposed to creation. Cudworth.
• DECREPITATION
  The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
• UNDECREED
  Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: