edict

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.