Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEC'RE-TO-RY
DEC'RE-TO-RY, a.
- Judicial; definitive; established by a decree. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. – South.
- Critical; determining; in which there is some definitive event; as, critical or decretory days. Brown.
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