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Edict   /ˈidɪkt/   Listen
Edict

noun
1.
A formal or authoritative proclamation.
2.
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).  Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript.





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"Edict" Quotes from Famous Books



... the next morning. Inside, wherever he looked, he saw girls in shorts and halters. The place seemed to be alive with partially clad women. He went to the nearest bulletin board and read Brenn's edict of four ...
— The Helpful Hand of God • Tom Godwin
... the surrounding circumstances point to the reign of Marcus Aurelius as the date of the martyrdom. Eusebius has preserved an edict, said to have been issued by Antoninus Pius, in which he announces that he had written to the governors of provinces "not to trouble the Christians at all, unless they appeared to make attempts against ...
— The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious • W. D. (William Dool) Killen
... Electorate was transferred by Imperial fiat to Maximilian of Bavaria, the head of the Catholic League, whereby a majority was given to the Catholics in the hitherto equally-divided College of Electors. An Imperial Edict of Restitution went forth, restoring to Catholicism all that it had lost by conversion within the last seventy years. Over all Germany, Jesuits and Capuchins swarmed with the mandates of reaction in their hands. ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith
... fairy's words, the king, in hopes of averting such a misfortune altogether, published an edict forbidding any person to make use of spindles, or even to keep them in their ...
— Bo-Peep Story Books • Anonymous
... declared the Roman Catholic religion to be dominant. There were two thousand convents in Austria. He reduced them to seven hundred, and cut down the number of thirty-two thousand idle monks to twenty-seven hundred; and nobly issued an edict of toleration, granting to all members of Protestant churches the free exercise of their religion. All Christians, of every denomination, were declared to be equally eligible to any offices ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott


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