decreet

This precedence had been assigned to it by the Decreet of Ranking , and assigns to it an origin in 1404 (or, as some say, 1395).

But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.

Whey they sayn ot King Harry hon decreet ot we're to ha' naw more monks or friars i' aw Englondshiar.

Oh, what hire and how many worlds would many then give to have a favourable decreet of the Judge!