Vocabulary : Decreasing to Decrepit

Decreasing : of Decrease ;; Becoming less and less; diminishing.
Decreation : Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
Decree : 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. ;; A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty. ;; A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. ;; An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. ;; 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. ;; To ordain by fate. ;; To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Decreeable : Capable of being decreed.
Decreed : of Decree
Decreeing : of Decree
Decreer : One who decrees.
Decreet : The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Decrement : The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. ;; The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment. ;; A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. ;; The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Decrepit : Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
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