Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See decreet, decree.
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Examples
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But for this gambit to succeed, the French prime minister, who must ultimately execute the decret d'extradition, would have to defy his country's court, and cause what would be a serious rift between France and the United States.
'What's Going On?' 2008
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'They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities decret, about organizing within the military.
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Ils trouvent une pendule, don't la pointe de Paiguille etoit, comme la plupart des pointes d'aiguilles, terminee en trefle: il leur semble que cette pointe a quelque chose d'approchant d'une fleur de lys; et non-obstant le decret qui ordonne de respecter les monumens des arts, il confisquent la pendule.
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-- A few people, whose zeal overpowers their discretion, have ventured to have masses at their own houses, but they are thinly attended; and on asking any one if they have yet been to this sort of conventicle, the reply is, _ "On new sait pas trop ce que le decret veut dire; il faut voir comment cela tournera."
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Barrere a appelle si heureusement le droit de prehension, quoique le decret s'opposat, dans l'espece, a l'application de ce droit.
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-- A few people, whose zeal overpowers their discretion, have ventured to have masses at their own houses, but they are thinly attended; and on asking any one if they have yet been to this sort of conventicle, the reply is, _ "On new sait pas trop ce que le decret veut dire; il faut voir comment cela tournera."
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Barrere a appelle si heureusement le droit de prehension, quoique le decret s'opposat, dans l'espece, a l'application de ce droit.
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Ils trouvent une pendule, don't la pointe de Paiguille etoit, comme la plupart des pointes d'aiguilles, terminee en trefle: il leur semble que cette pointe a quelque chose d'approchant d'une fleur de lys; et non-obstant le decret qui ordonne de respecter les monumens des arts, il confisquent la pendule.
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GUYET, Heortologia (Urbino, 1728); CAVALIERI, Comment in S.C. R. decret.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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; FOURNIER, Deux controverses sur les origines du decret de Gratien in Revue d'histoire et de litterature religieuses, III (Paris, 1898), 97 sqq.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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