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Definition of edict

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Edict (n.) 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..

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Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning..

Imperial :: Imperial (a.) Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict..

Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

Annul :: Annul (a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority..

Benedictine :: Benedictine (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet..

Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..

Parusia :: Parusia (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events..

Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune..

Benedictus :: Benedictus (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..

Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Unpredict :: Unpredict (v. i.) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.

Black Monk :: Black monk () A Benedictine monk.

Valedictory :: Valedictory (a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration..

Predict :: Predict (n.) A prediction.

Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction..

Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.

Vaticinate :: Vaticinate (v. i. & t.) To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

Foreteller :: Foreteller (n.) One who predicts.