decreed
Issued an edict
Decreed is the past tense of decree, meaning to order or command with authority.
A king decreed new taxes; a court decreed that property be divided.
The word implies official or authoritative pronouncement: The judge decreed that custody would be shared.
Fate or destiny can also decree: Fortune had decreed otherwise.
Declared in public
- announcedPublicly stated or declared
- pronouncedSpoken aloud formally
- orderedArranged or commanded
- commandedGave authoritative instructions
mandated · ruled · dictated · adjudged · ordained · determined · established · stipulated
Authoritative official decree
- diktatUnilateral authoritative decree
- ukaseAuthoritative imperial proclamation
- rescriptAuthoritative written response
- bullSteer before castration
writ · injunction · directive · dictum · pronouncement · ordinance · mandate · order
Enacted written rule
- enactmentPassing into law
- actDeed or performance
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
bylaw · code · charter · amendment · ratification · codified · legislated · sanctioned
proclaimed
Declared in public
- announcedPublicly stated or declared
- pronouncedSpoken aloud formally
- orderedArranged or commanded
commanded · mandated · ruled · dictated · adjudged · ordained · determined · established · stipulated · prescribed
fiat
Authoritative official decree
- diktatUnilateral authoritative decree
- ukaseAuthoritative imperial proclamation
- rescriptAuthoritative written response
bull · writ · injunction · directive · dictum · pronouncement · ordinance · mandate · order · ruling
statute
Enacted written rule
regulation · bylaw · code · charter · amendment · ratification · codified · legislated · sanctioned · constituted
monarch
Hereditary supreme ruler
tyrant · sultan · pharaoh · czar · autocrat · despot · regent · potentate · ruler · overlord
- predeterminedfate, destiny, kismet, preordained, prearranged
- mandatory thingsmandatory, required, obligatory, compulsory, necessary
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, preordination, election, foreknowledge
- accountabilityaccountability, responsibility, accountable, take responsibility, answerability
- legitimacylegal, validity, legitimate, lawfulness, lawful
decreedrequested
Asked for specifically
suggested · proposed · recommended · asked · petitioned
decreedunsettled
Not yet resolved
revoked · rescinded · annulled · overturned · repealed
decreedconcealed
Made invisible deliberately
suppressed · withheld · hidden · hushed up · covered up
- presidential decreeHead of state's directive
- divorce decreeCourt document ending marriage
- royal decreeOfficial order from sovereign
- by decree
- imperial decreeSovereign's formal command
- divine decreeGod's official pronouncement