Careful Words

decree (n.)

decree (v.)

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Deserted Village. Line 385.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,

And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,

Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.