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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Presage :: Presage (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Benedictine :: Benedictine (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet..
Augur :: Augur (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer..
Prophetize :: Prophetize (v. i.) To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy.
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Prophecy :: Prophecy (n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling..
Curse :: Curse (v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction..
Vaticinate :: Vaticinate (v. i. & t.) To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.
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..
Unblest :: Unblest (a.) Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched..
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..
Benedictory :: Benedictory (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer..
Publication :: Publication (n.) The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts..
Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..
Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning..
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..
Blessing :: Blessing (v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces..
Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
Benediction :: Benediction (n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God..
Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction..
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