These are the meanings of the letters EXCEDER when you unscramble them.
- Decree (n.)
A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
- Decree (n.)
A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
- Decree (n.)
An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
- Decree (n.)
An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
- Decree (v. i.)
To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
- Decree (v. t.)
To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
- Decree (v. t.)
To ordain by fate.
- Exceed (v. i.)
To be more or greater; to be paramount.
- Exceed (v. i.)
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
- Exceed (v. t.)
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
- Recede (v. i.)
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
- Recede (v. i.)
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
- Recede (v. i.)
To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.