Meanings
adjectivedecretorial (comparative more decretorial, superlative most decretorial)
comparative more decretorial · superlative most decretorial
- serving as a decree; authoritative
medical or decretorial month
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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