DECREED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decreed mean? 

• DECREED (adjective)
  The adjective DECREED has 1 sense:

1. fixed or established especially by order or command

  Familiarity information: DECREED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECREED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fixed or established especially by order or command

Synonyms:

appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed

Context example:

at the time appointed (or the appointed time)

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

 Context examples 

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

'Then the worse for thy soul!' said he; and with that he broke into a long tale how that on account of the virtues of the Abbot Berghersh it had been decreed by the Pope that whoever should wear the habit of a monk of Beaulieu for as long as he might say the seven psalms of David should be assured of the kingdom of Heaven.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that misfortunes never come singly, and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a custom introduced by this prince and his ministry (very different, as I have been assured, from the practice of former times,) that after the court had decreed any cruel execution, either to gratify the monarch’s resentment, or the malice of a favourite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and tenderness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)