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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To settle conclusively all contention or uncertainty about: decide a case; decided the dispute in favor of the workers.
  2. v. To make up one's mind about: decide what to do.
  3. v. To influence or determine the outcome of: A few votes decided the election.
  4. v. To cause to make or reach a decision.
  5. v. To pronounce a judgment; announce a verdict.
  6. v. To make up one's mind.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cut off; separate.
  2. To determine, as a question, controversy, or struggle, by some mode of arbitrament; settle by giving the victory to one side or the other; determine the issue or result of; adjust; conclude; end: as, the court decided the case in favor of the plaintiff; the umpire decided the contest; the fate of the bill is decided.
  3. To resolve; determine in the mind: as, he decided to go.
  4. To determine; form a definite opinion; come to a conclusion; pronounce a judgment: as, the court decided in favor of the defendant; to decide upon one's course.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
  2. v. intransitive To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
  3. v. transitive To cause someone to come to a decision.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To cut off; to separate.
  2. v. To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.
  3. v. To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. influence or determine
  2. v. reach, make, or come to a decision about something
  3. v. cause to decide
  4. v. bring to an end; settle conclusively

Etymologies

  1. From French décider or Latin dēcīdere, infintive of dēcīdō ("cut off, decide"), from  ("down from") + caedō ("cut"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English deciden, from Old French decider, from Latin dēcīdere, to cut off, decide : dē-, de- + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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