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edict

[ ee-dikt ]

noun

  1. a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority.

    Synonyms: pronouncement, dictum

  2. any authoritative proclamation or command.


edict

/ ˈiːdɪkt /

noun

  1. a decree, order, or ordinance issued by a sovereign, state, or any other holder of authority
  2. any formal or authoritative command, proclamation, etc


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Derived Forms

  • eˈdictally, adverb
  • eˈdictal, adjective

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Other Words From

  • e·dictal adjective
  • e·dictal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of edict1

First recorded in 1450–1500; from Latin ēdictum, noun use of neuter of ēdictus (past participle of ēdīcere “to give public notice, proclaim”), equivalent to ē- + dictus “said”; e- 1, dictum

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Word History and Origins

Origin of edict1

C15: from Latin ēdictum, from ēdīcere to declare

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Example Sentences

He said the governor should not be allowed “to evade judicial review by issuing short-term edicts and then urging us to overlook their problems only because one edict is about to expire while the next has yet to arrive.”

Democrats are authoritarians for banning large gatherings and hypocrites for instances in which they deviate from those edicts.

Meanwhile, the most famous Supreme Court case about vaccines dates from 1905, and involves a man who challenged an edict by city officials in Cambridge, MA to get a vaccine for smallpox or receive a $5 fine.

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The edict of the line is to be efficient, towable, and rugged.

I can’t see my girls publicly challenging Padre Giulio on his edict.

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The ban on chatting follows a similar edict issued earlier this year in a much more hardliner nation.

The edict says “any persons that can express any legal impediment can denounce” the nuptials.

For many Walmart employees, working through the holiday season is both an economic necessity and an edict from management.

Anyway, blatantly disobeying the Palace's recent edict to stay out of the limelight, Pippa was there, looking very glamorous.

Sir Elton helped move the party tickets, explaining that every Oscar winner was required by Hollywood edict to drop by VF—or else.

He prohibited the assemblies in the cemeteries, and reiterated the edict of extermination against the Christians.

With intensifying violence edict followed edict, like successive strokes of thunder in a raging storm.

Non licet esse vos—It is not lawful for you to exist—was the stern edict of extermination pronounced against the saints.

And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.

There are many resident English, who have been nationalized by express edict, or the construction of the law.

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