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edict
[ ee-dikt ]
noun
- a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority.
Synonyms: pronouncement, dictum
- any authoritative proclamation or command.
edict
/ ˈiːdɪkt /
noun
- a decree, order, or ordinance issued by a sovereign, state, or any other holder of authority
- any formal or authoritative command, proclamation, etc
Derived Forms
- eˈdictal, adjective
- eˈdictally, adverb
Other Words From
- e·dictal adjective
- e·dictal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of edict1
Example Sentences
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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