Decrees Definition

Decrees Sentence Examples

• The resolutions of the Lambeth Conferences have never been regarded as synodical decrees, but their weight has increased with each conference.

• The emperor Marcian approved the doctrinal decrees of the council and enjoined silence in regard to theological questions.

• He encouraged the cities, and not content with issuing proclamations against private war, formed alliances with the princes in order to enforce his decrees.

• When Leo the Isaurian published his decrees against the worship of images in 726, Gregory II.

• He was to draw up a written treatise, stating the course he proposed, and defending it by arguments from scripture, the fathers and the decrees of general councils.