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edict (ēdikt′)

noun

  1. an official public proclamation or order issued by authority; decree
  2. any command or order

Etymology: L edictum, neut. pp. of edicere, to proclaim < e-, out + dicere, to speak: see diction

edict Related Forms
edic·tal (ē diktəl) adjective
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edict

n.

edict Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • revoke: In France, Louis was proving his own despotic ways by revoking the Edict of Nantes which had allowed the Huguenots some toleration.
  • enforce: But media and peer pressures are not the same as edicts enforced by the police.
  • publish: In A.D. 250 he published an edict calling for a return to the pagan state religion.
  • follow: He begins to follow the edicts of the Bible, and plans to kill every prostitute and their customers in Paris.
  • defy: Displaying admirable boldness, he had defied the government edict that had banned images of dead British soldiers throughout the war years.

Adjective modifier

  • imperial: According to historical records, Fu Su committed suicide in obedience to a supposed imperial edict.
  • royal: Every commandment is a royal edict, a statute which God hath made for the governing of the world.
  • religious: He denied earlier reports he had issued a fatwa, or formal religious edict.
  • late: Once bitten twice shy must surely guide our reaction to the council's latest edict.
  • new: What will be the future equivalent of nailing a new edict on a tree in the center of a village?
  • such: Such edicts define practice and rapidly fossilize into rules.

Noun used with modifier

  • government: He even ran for president of Nigeria in 1983, only to find himself banned from politics by government edict.
  • rock: Specified texts or subjects Asoka, rock edicts 1-4, 13.
  • issue: Issue edicts to rig gambling halls, force captives to walk the plank or even instigate a war between dominant world powers.

Possessives

  • king: Here Daniel adds the king's edict, which he wished to be promulgated.

Preposition: of

  • toleration: We need an edict of toleration to discourage the tendency of new theories to proscribe their predecessors.
  • expulsion: After the edict of expulsion had been issued, Ferdinand and Isabella requested that he remain in Spain.

Preposition: for

  • induction: INDUCTION The Edict for the Induction of the Rev. Randolph Scott to the Church and Parish of Coatbridge: Calder was returned duly served.

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