Definitions for: Edict


[n] a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[n] a formal or authoritative proclamation



Webster (1913) Definition: E"dict, n. [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to
declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. ['e]dit. See
Diction.]
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.

It stands as an edict in destiny. --Shak.

Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry
IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its
revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by
terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of
French Protestants.

Syn: Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule;
order; manifesti; command. See Law.

Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript

See Also: act, announcement, annunciation, ban, bull, consent decree, curfew, declaration, decree nisi, enactment, imperial decree, interdiction, judicial separation, legal separation, papal bull, proclamation, programma, prohibition, proscription, stay

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