Edict

Definition: Edict

Edict

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "edict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Edict

Command

Dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment; (law); plebiscite; (choice).

Crosswords: Edict

Romanian (decree, edict).

The Cardinal's Edict (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A History of the Protection of Regional Cultural Minorities in Europe: From the Edict of Nantes to the Present Day (reference)

• Cardinal Edict (reference)

• Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela and The Bhabru Edict of Asoka (reference)

• The edict (reference)

• The Edict of Religion, A Comedy, and The Story and Diary of My Imprisonment (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This legislative is not only the supreme power of the common-wealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power soever backed, have the force and obligation of a law, which has not its sanction from that legislative which the public has chosen and appointed: for without this the law could not have that, which is absolutely necessary to its being a law, the consent of the society, over whom no body can have a power to make laws, but by their own consent,* and by authority received from them; and therefore all the obedience, which by the most solemn ties any one can be obliged to pay, ultimately terminates in this supreme power, and is directed by those laws which it enacts: nor can any oaths to any foreign power whatsoever, or any domestic subordinate power, discharge any member of the society from his obedience to the legislative, acting pursuant to their trust; nor oblige him to any obedience contrary to the laws so enacted, or farther than they do allow; it being ridiculous to imagine one can be tied ultimately to obey any power in the society, which is not the supreme. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Under a large tree near by fell the German general, Duplat, of a French family which fled on the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Whereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Mongolia

The edict is enforced, particularly in the capital area. (references)

Afghanistan

After the incident, Mullah Omar issued an edict stating that any person causing annoyance to a foreign worker could face punishment of up to 5 years in prison. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

A 1997 Taliban edict renamed the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and installed Taliban leader Mullah Omar as Head of State and "Commander of the Faithful." He held all ultimate authority. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

The Prime Minister issued an edict in February 2001 stipulating that land bought by foreigners must continue to be used for its designated purpose. (references)

Afghanistan

In 1997 the Taliban issued an edict renaming the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and named its leader, Mullah Omar, Head of State and Commander of the Faithful, granting him ultimate authority. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

The latest religious edict (Fatwa) by the highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia condemns software piracy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "edict": Edict of Nantes. Additional references.

Albanian

urdhër (behest, bidding, command, commandment, decoration, decree, dictate, dictation, injunction, mandate, order, prescript, prescription, warrant, word), dekret (act, ban, constitution, decree, decretal, enactment, fiat, ordinance, statute, ukase). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرمان (decree), ‏مرسوم (act, decree, legislative, ordinance, regulation, sanction), ‏أمر عال (decree, rescript). (various references)

Bulgarian 

указ (act, decree, mandate, ordinance, ukase), декрет (act, commandment, constitution, decree, doom, ordinance, rescript, sanction). (various references)

Czech

dekret (decree, patent). (various references)

Dutch

uitvoeringsdecreet (edict outlining practical measures for the application of a law), Koninklijk Besluit houdende een Algemene Maatregel van Bestuur (edict outlining practical measures for the application of a law). (various references)

Farsi 

فرمان (Bull, Charter, Command, Commandment, Commission, Decree, Errand, Institute, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Precept, Sanction, Word), قانون (Code, Law, Regulation, Rule, Statute), حکم (Arbiter, Canon, Commandment, Commission, Decree, Doom, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Pardon, Precept, Rule, Sentence, Statute, Warrant, Writ). (various references)

Finnish

säädös (act, decree, provision of the law, statute), käskykirje. (various references)

French

décret. (various references)

German

erlass (abatement, decree, enactment, fiat, mandate, release, relief, remission), edikt (command, decree, order). (various references)

Greek 

χρυσόβουλλο, διάταγμα (decree, fiat, rescript). (various references)

Hebrew 

א�'רת (deed, despatch, dispatch, document, epistle, letter, lettercard, missive, note, writ), �"ת (denomination, faith, religion), �'זר�" (decision, decree, predestination, prohibition, restrictive law), צו (behest, command, decree, fiat, imperative, order, ordinance, prescription, say so). (various references)

Hungarian

kiáltvány (manifesto, proclamation). (various references)

Indonesian

undang-undang (canon), dekrit (decree). (various references)

Italian

editto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

公示 (public announcement), 勅令 , 布告 (ordinance, proclamation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふ�"く (national enrichment, ordinance, proclamation, rich country), �"うじ (affairs after one's death, alley, bait, construction work, curious, decoy, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, lure, malt, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast), �"うし (calf, company, Confucius, Crown Prince, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman), ちょくれい. (various references)

Manx

fogrey (announce, announcement, bill, declaration, declare, herald, notice, notification, placard, proclaim). (various references)

Pig Latin

edictay.(various references)

Portuguese

raízes comestíveis (edible roots), édito (decree). (various references)

Romanian

edict (decree), decret (act, decree, enactment, fiat, ordinance, sanction). (various references)

Russian 

указ (decree, enactment, fiat, ordinance, ukase), эдикт. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukaz (act, decree, rescript, ukase). (various references)

Spanish

edicto (decree, proclamation), bando (ban, bill, poster, proclamation). (various references)

Swedish

påbud (command, decree, imposition, order). (various references)

Thai

คำสั่ง (direction, directive, fiat, order, say-so). (various references)

Turkish

tebliğ (communication, communique, manifesto, notification, rescript, service), ferman (decree, firman, imperial order, ordinance, rescript, writ), bildiri (announcement, asseveration, bulletin, communique, manifesto, memo, memorandum, memorial, notice, notification, proclamation, report, service, throwaway, writ). (various references)

Turkmen 

ukaz (r) (decree). (various references)

Ukranian 

указ (decree, enactment, fiat, ordinance), непорушний закон, едикт (placard). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sắc lệnh (decrease, dormant, enaction, enactment, fiat, ordinance, prescript), chỉ dụ. (various references)

decretum, edicta, edicti, edictis, edictum. (various references)

programma. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "edict": edictal, edicts. (additional references)

Words ending with "edict": benedict, maledict, predict. (additional references)

Words containing "edict": benediction, benedictions, benedictory, benedicts, maledicted, maledicting, malediction, maledictions, maledictory, maledicts, predictabilities, predictability, predictable, predictably, predicted, predicting, prediction, predictions, predictive, predictively, predictor, predictors, predicts, unpredictabilities, unpredictability, unpredictable, unpredictables, unpredictably, valediction, valedictions, valedictorian, valedictorians, valedictories, valedictory. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Edict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adic, Adick, adict, decit, dedic, dedict, deic, dict, ecict, edact, Edcf, edec, edi, edicat, edice, edicet, edicit, edicut, ediot, edis, edita, edoc, edoist, Edric, egic, eic, Eicg, elict, epict, Erdsicht, erict, etic, exict, idict, medact, oddict, odic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cited.

-1 letter: cedi, cite, dice, diet, dite, edit, etic, iced, tide, tied.

-2 letters: die, dit, ice, ted, tic, tie.

-3 letters: de, ed, et, id, it, ti.

+1 letter: citied, coedit, credit, deceit, delict, deltic, depict, detick, direct, edicts, itched, ticked, triced.

+2 letters: bedtick, bitched, cestoid, chedite, citadel, coedits, cordite, credits, ctenoid, deceits, deficit, deictic, deistic, delicts, deltaic, demotic, deontic, depicts, deticks, dialect, diciest, dictate, dictier, directs, discept, disject, dissect, ditched, ditcher, ditches, docetic, ductile, edacity, edictal, eidetic, enticed, evicted, excited, hitched, identic, incited, lichted, noticed, picoted, pitched, predict, recited, sticked, tickled, tierced, tincted, tricked, verdict, witched.

+3 letters: abdicate, accident, accredit, acetamid, acridest, actinide, addicted, anticked, articled, bedticks, benedict, bisected, catenoid, cavitied, centroid, ceratoid, cestoids, cheddite, chedites, ciliated, citadels, citified, citrated, cityfied, citywide, codirect, coedited, coeditor, copyedit, cordites, credited, creditor, cricetid, crudites, ctenidia, cuittled, curdiest, curtsied, cytidine, decimate, decrepit, dedicate, deficits, delicate, demotics, denticle, depicted, depicter, depictor, derelict, desertic, despotic, deticked, deticker, deuteric, diabetic, diacetyl, dialects, dicentra, dickiest, dictated, dictates, dictiest, dieretic, diestock, dietetic, dimetric, directed, directer, directly, director, discepts, discreet, discrete, disjects, dissects, distance, ditchers, diuretic, doctrine, domestic, duckiest, eduction, eductive, eldritch, elicited, epidotic, feticide, flitched, geodetic, idiolect, impacted, incanted, incepted, incident, incudate, indecent, indicate, indicted, indictee, indicter, indirect, inducted, inductee, infected, injected, invected, lacertid, latticed, maledict, medicate, methodic, misacted, miscited, miticide, morticed, nictated, occident, outchide, outcried, pectized, pedantic, peptidic, picketed, picrated, pictured, plicated, precited, predicts, radicate, raticide, readdict, redirect, reindict, reinduct, scripted, snitched, spicated, stickled, stitched, switched, syndetic, tetracid, tetradic, theodicy, ticketed, tickseed, timecard, tracheid, trickled, twitched, vaticide, verdicts.

+4 letters: abdicated, abdicates, accidents, accredits, acetamide, acetamids, acetified, acidities, acidulate, acidulent, acierated, acquitted, actinides, activated, activized, addictive, adductive, adipocyte, adjective, advecting, advection, advective, afflicted, andesitic, anecdotic, astricted, asyndetic, auctioned, bacteroid, benedicts, bewitched, bratticed, cadential, cadetship, candidate, candidest, candlelit, captained, captioned, carinated, cartridge, catenoids, cautioned, cavitated, centipede, centroids, certified, certitude, charioted, chastised, cheddites, chittered, chondrite, cinctured, circuited, cloddiest, cloudiest, codirects, coediting, coeditors, coexisted, cogitated, cohabited, committed, conceited, condiment, confident, consisted, contained, continued, contrived, convicted, copyedits, courtside, coxitides, crediting, creditors, credulity, cricetids, cricketed, critiqued, cruddiest, crudities, ctenidium, cuddliest, curtailed, curtained, cuspidate, custodies, cutinised, cutinized, cytidines, dacoities, decaliter, decanting, deceitful, deception, deceptive, decertify, deciduate, deciliter, decimated, decimates, decimeter, declivity, decocting, decoction, decretive, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, dedicator, deducting, deduction, deductive, defecting, defection, defective, deficient, dehiscent, deistical, dejecting, dejection, delicates, dendritic, denticles, depicters, depicting, depiction, depictors, derelicts, desiccant, desiccate, detaching, detecting, detection, detective, detickers, deticking, diabetics, diacetyls, diaconate, diaeretic, dialectal, dialectic, diametric, diathetic, dicentras, dicentric, diestocks, dietetics, dietician, digenetic, directest, directing, direction, directive, directors, directory, directrix, disaffect, discanted, discepted, discredit, disinfect, disjected, dislocate, dissected, dissector, distanced, distances, diuretics, docketing, doctrines, doleritic, domestics, dowitcher, duplicate, dyspeptic, ecdysiast, edacities, educating, education, educative, eductions, elucidate, emaciated, endotoxic, eradicate, ethicized, eutectoid, excitedly, extincted, fasciated, fecundity, feticides, fideistic, glaciated, identical, idiolects, incidents, incondite, incrusted, incubated, indicated, indicates, indictees, indicters, inductees, inductive, infarcted, inflected, inflicted, infracted, inspected, instanced, intercede, interdict, introduce, invocated, lacertids, maledicts, matricide, medicated, medicates, mendacity, mendicant, mendicity, misdirect, mistraced, miticides, nitpicked, noncredit, occidents, outchided, outchides, outkicked, outpriced, outvoiced, patricide, pediatric, peridotic, pesticide, poulticed, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, predicted, predictor, prenticed, radicated, radicates, raticides, readdicts, receipted, recondite, recordist, recruited, rectified, rectitude, redacting, redaction, redirects, reduction, reductive, reincited, reindicts, reinducts, retrodict, sectioned, seduction, seductive, sidetrack, solicited, sonicated, speciated, stenciled, stepchild, stickseed, stickweed, strickled, stridence, stridency, suctioned, syndicate, tackified, tetracids, thickened, thicketed, thickhead, threnodic, tickseeds, tictacked, tictocked, timecards, tinctured, traceried, tracheids, trackside, trisected, tunicated, unexcited, unhitched, unnoticed, urticated, vaticides, vesicated, victualed, videlicet, vindicate, wickedest, witchweed.

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