edict

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

order decree command proclamation fiat rescript law rule sentence requirement ruling regulation statute mandate directive
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Antonyms

rosary bill claim request answer appeal
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Hypernyms

annunciation act declaration announcement proclamation enactment

Hyponyms

bull stay ban prohibition curfew proscription

Phrases with the word

official papal edict papal edict edict issued by a pope biblical edict divine edict available edict

Anagrams

cited

Examples

a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there Source: Internet

According to Raiswell (1997), any Christian would be protected by the earlier edict but the un-baptized were implicitly allowed to be enslaved. Source: Internet

Also, by an edict of 17 March of that year, the farmers were freed from the corvée and hereditary submission. Source: Internet

Although the minutes proved a direct link between Urba and graft activity, an edict from the office of Mitterrand, himself listed as a recipient, prevented further investigation. Source: Internet

A majority of the theologians and all the monks opposed these measures with uncompromising hostility, and in the western parts of the Empire the people refused to obey the edict. Source: Internet

And all the merchants confirmed by edict that my people, both merchants, and the others who travel to make their devotions, might go to Rome and return without being afflicted by barriers and toll collectors, in firm peace and secure in a just law. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

edible-podded pea edibleness Edick edict issued by a pope edictal edictally