decreverat

decreverat is a Latin form of decerno, meaning “decide, decree”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.1: Caesar his de causis quas commemoravi Rhenum transire decreverat; sed navibus transire neque satis tutum esse arbitrabatur neque suae neque populi Romani dignitatis esse statuebat.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 73: … ebis T. Manlio Mancino rogatus, quem vellet cum Iugurtha bellum gerere, frequens Marium iussit. Sed paulo ... Decreverat: ea res frustra fuit.

Suetonius, Divus Julius 84.2: … nis loco consul Antonius per praeconem pronuntiauit senatus consultum, quo omnia simul ei diuina atque humana decreuerat, item ius iurandum, quo se cuncti pro salute unius astrinxerant; quibus perpauca a se uerba addidit.

All forms of decerno (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.