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発音

• (weak vowel distinction) IPA: /dɪˈkɹiː/, [dɪˈkʰɹʷɪi̯]
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /dəˈkɹiː/, [dəˈkʰɹʷɪi̯]
• 韻: -iː
• ハイフネーション: de‧cree

名詞

decree (plural decrees)

1. An edict or law.

   Synonym: edict

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:

     There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?

2. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
3. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
4. (religion) A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.

派生語

派生した語

• → Malay: dekri
• → Malayalam: ഡിക്രി (ḍikri)
• → Swahili: dikrii

動詞

decree (third-person singular simple present decrees, present participle decreeing, simple past and past participle decreed)

1. To command by a decree.

   A court decrees a restoration of property.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 22:28:

     Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.

   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:

     In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.

   • 2022 November 8, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Why Does This Tibetan Kitchen Also Cook Sichuan Food?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 November 2022, Food‎:

     The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.

同意語

派生語

アナグラム

• recede