statute All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal {statute}, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. statute Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is], That no decree nor {statute} which the king establisheth may be changed. ~~~~~~