decrevistis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decerno, decernere, decrevi, decretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
decide/settle/determine/resolve; decree/declare/ordain; judge; vote for/contend;; decrease; abate; diminish, dwindle, shrink; (in number/amount); be subtracted;; lose vigor/intensity, decline/weaken/fade influence/reputation; grow shorter;
pl. perf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...virtute atque diligentia perditorum hominum coniurationem patefactam esse decrevistis, deinde quod P. Lentulum se abdicare praetura coegistis..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...illa foeda atque intoleranda viris videbantur, haec sequi decrevistis. Si haec relinquere voltis, audacia opus est; nemo nisi..."