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edict

/ee-dikt/US // ˈi dɪkt //UK // (ˈiːdɪkt) //

诏令,敕令,诏书,谕令

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority.
    • : any authoritative proclamation or command.

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Examples

  • He said the governor should not be allowed “to evade judicial review by issuing short-term edicts and then urging us to overlook their problems only because one edict is about to expire while the next has yet to arrive.”

  • Democrats are authoritarians for banning large gatherings and hypocrites for instances in which they deviate from those edicts.

  • Meanwhile, the most famous Supreme Court case about vaccines dates from 1905, and involves a man who challenged an edict by city officials in Cambridge, MA to get a vaccine for smallpox or receive a $5 fine.

  • The edict of the line is to be efficient, towable, and rugged.

  • I can’t see my girls publicly challenging Padre Giulio on his edict.

  • The ban on chatting follows a similar edict issued earlier this year in a much more hardliner nation.

  • The edict says “any persons that can express any legal impediment can denounce” the nuptials.

  • For many Walmart employees, working through the holiday season is both an economic necessity and an edict from management.

  • Anyway, blatantly disobeying the Palace's recent edict to stay out of the limelight, Pippa was there, looking very glamorous.

  • Sir Elton helped move the party tickets, explaining that every Oscar winner was required by Hollywood edict to drop by VF—or else.

  • He prohibited the assemblies in the cemeteries, and reiterated the edict of extermination against the Christians.

  • With intensifying violence edict followed edict, like successive strokes of thunder in a raging storm.

  • Non licet esse vos—It is not lawful for you to exist—was the stern edict of extermination pronounced against the saints.

  • And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.

  • There are many resident English, who have been nationalized by express edict, or the construction of the law.