The corpus record — Latin

decretorius

decretorius · adj

belonging to a decision, decisive

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Where it lives

De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

dēcrētōrĭus — Lewis & Short

dēcrētōrĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I belonging to a decision, decisive (post-Aug.): non accedit ad decretorium stilum, i. e. to a definitive sentence, Sen. Clem. 1, 14: intrepidus horam illam decretoriam (viz., the hour of death) prospice, id. Ep. 102 med.; so, dies, Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 288; cf. id. 18, 28, 68, § 272: arma, Sen. Ep. 117 med.; so Quint. 10, 5, 20: pugna, id. 6, 4, 6.

In the wild

decretoriam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.4.6
decretoriis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.5.20
decretorium Seneca, De Clementia 1.14.1
decretorio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.28.p4
decretoriam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.102.24
decretorio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.29.p2

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