decree (n.)
- act
- action
- announcement
- appointment
- award
- behest
- bid
- bidding
- bill
- brevet
- bull
- bylaw
- canon
- charge
- command
- commission
- condemnation
- consideration
- decision
- declaration
- deliverance
- demand
- desire
- determination
- diagnosis
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- direction
- directive
- doom
- edict
- enactment
- fiat
- filibuster
- find
- finding
- force
- foreknowledge
- foreordination
- form
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- injunction
- institution
- instruction
- judgement
- jus
- kill
- law
- legislation
- legitimate
- lex
- mandate
- manifesto
- measure
- necessity
- oblige
- order
- ordinance
- pass
- pigeonhole
- precedent
- precept
- predestination
- predetermination
- preordination
- prescience
- prescript
- prescription
- proclamation
- prognosis
- promulgation
- pronouncement
- pronunciamento
- regulation
- report
- rescript
- resolution
- resolve
- rubric
- rule
- ruling
- sanction
- sentence
- set
- statute
- table
- ukase
- verdict
- veto
- will
- wish
decree (v.)
- act
- action
- adjudge
- authorize
- award
- bid
- bill
- brevet
- bull
- charge
- choose
- command
- commission
- compel
- condemn
- constitute
- constrain
- decide
- declare
- demand
- desire
- determine
- dictate
- direct
- doom
- edict
- enact
- enjoin
- establish
- filibuster
- find
- force
- form
- formulate
- impose
- instruct
- kill
- law
- legalize
- legislate
- legitimate
- legitimatize
- legitimize
- lex
- logroll
- mandate
- measure
- oblige
- ordain
- order
- pass
- pigeonhole
- prescribe
- proclaim
- promulgate
- pronounce
- regulate
- report
- require
- resolve
- rubric
- rule
- sanction
- sentence
- set
- table
- validate
- veto
- will
- wish
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.