decree vs impose

decree

verb
  • To command by a decree. 

noun
  • The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. 

  • An edict or law. 

  • A predetermination made by God; an act of providence. 

  • The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. 

impose

verb
  • To establish or apply by authority. 

  • To practice a trick or deception (on or upon). 

  • To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc. 

  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way 

  • To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. 

  • to be an inconvenience (on or upon) 

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