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Edict

noun

A formal or authoritative proclamation.

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

... is no method by which a man can be made to covet a tail, so sure as by supplying all his neighbors, and excluding him by an especial edict. ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... odd place; it used to be inhabited by hundreds of Protestant beaver hat-makers, who fled from there after the Edict of Nantes' affair, and so there are streets of deserted houses still, and so old, one has a stream down the middle. I would not go into the church: the usual smell met me at the door; so the Vicomte ...

— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn

... again to do something for the cause of public morality, in 1074, when he issued edicts against both concubinage and simony—or the then prevalent custom of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; but the edict was too harsh and unreasonable with regard to the first, inasmuch as it provided that no priest should marry in the future, and that those who already possessed wives or concubines were to give them up or relinquish ...

— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger

... himself for larger duties. The largest duty as he seemed to see it was the freedom of his people from insult and injustice, and the recognition of his people upon the same level as other Mauritians. Before the edict of emancipation, the Legislative Council on June 22, 1829, had granted the free population of color the same civil rights and privileges as other Mauritians possessed, but the local government had failed to carry out the enactment. Remy Ollier felt that this was a blot on the fair ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... early days of the great Frontenac, who had planted a settlement here—a collection of wooden huts within a stockade—to be an entrepot of commerce with the Indians of the Upper Lakes. Later it became a favourite haunt of deserters from the army and coureurs de bois outlawed by royal edict; and, strangely enough, these had been the days of its prosperity. Its real decline began when the Governor, toward the end of his rule, replaced the wooden huts with a fortress of stone. The traders, trappers, ne'er-do-wells and Indians deserted ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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