Edict
['iːdɪkt] or ['idɪkt]
Definition
(n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.
Checker: Lyman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Command, order, decree, rescript, mandate, ordinance, proclamation, ban.
Edited by Lancelot
Definition
n. something proclaimed by authority: an order issued by a king or lawgiver.—adj. Edict′al.—adv. Edict′ally.
Typist: Robinson
Examples
- Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- At that time there was an imperial edict forbidding foreign travel, so that Yuan Chwang started from Singan like an escaping criminal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What need of bars, indeed, to keep those poor victims from rushing into the arena which the edict of the gods had appointed as their death place! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In many provinces, no doubt, there must have been a great reluctance to enforce the edict. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- John Carter, he said, by the edict of custom, by the law of our religion, and by the verdict of an impartial court, you are condemned to die. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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