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Definition of decree : 1. A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
2. A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
3. An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
4. An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru decision.
5. To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
6. To make decrees; - used absolutely.
7. To ordain by fate.

Synonyms:

mandate, citation, instruction, formula, purchase order, rewrite, order, command, imperative, acquit, determination, regulation, club, bring in a verdict, precept, society, guild, statute, ruling, rein, jurisprudence, canon, revisal, do, economy, govern, dictate, proclamation, injunction, gild, instruct, tax with, polity, require, rules of order, orderliness, push around, revise, find, reign, declaration, law, award, order around, directive, pronouncement, prescription, ordination, social club, fiat, word, lodge, revision, ukase, institute, direction, annul, ordering, parliamentary law, diktat, harness, judgment, ordinance, monastic order, edict, rescript, bull, behest, commandment, call for, legislation, predominate, boss around, order of magnitude, dominate, bar, charge, rule, code, principle, acquittal, parliamentary procedure, prevail, enactment, tell

establish, ordain, set, legislate, enact

Usage examples:

• The case was carried to the Supreme Court which by a vote of five to four, affirmed the decree of the lower court. - "History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)", E. Benjamin Andrews.
• There were Bavarian soldiers here to- day; they gave me a new decree, and ordered me to obey it under pain of death. - "Andreas Hofer", Lousia Muhlbach.
• They mustered a force for their own protection, and that same day passed a decree that the viceroy should be arrested. - "History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas", Prescott, William Hickling.