To command by a decree.
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.
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)