EDICT


Meaning of EDICT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

issue

He tried to persuade senior clerics to issue an edict allowing him to kill President Mohammad Khatami.

The Phoenix King issued an edict forbidding them to set foot on Ulthuan.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Perpich learned how much state employees resented edicts sent down from the senior management.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Above me, I fear the edicts of heaven.

Hence we see, at the end of edicts and ordinances, these words: For such is our pleasure.

So the recommendations are a helpful guideline, not a biblical edict .

There, I predict that any such legislative edict would be tossed out on its ear.

Where it could, it expropriated resources by simple edict .

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