dixitn.
/ˈdɪksɪt/ An utterance (quoted as) already given.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated
overword?a1513
sanctus1594
reassumption1611
dixit1628
overcome?a1800
parrot cry1814
stereotype1850
repetend1874
parrot-echo1892
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlvi. sig. I3 Hee hates authority as the Tyrant of reason, and you cannot anger him worse then with a Fathers dixit.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §80. 645 On no better Ground than this Man's Dixit.
1812 Examiner 23 Aug. 543/2 The point..did not depend on Lord Moira's dixit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1628- as rathe so rather so
- as rathe swa rathe swa
- as reason is
- as red as fire
- as regarded
- as regarding
- as regards
- as regular as clockwork
- as regular as shrewsbury clock
- as regularly as clockwork
- as respects
- as rich as a jew
- as rich as a king
- as rich as crœsus
- as right as a ram's horn
- as right as a trivet
- as right as my leg
- as right as ninepence
- as right as rain
- as round as a ball
- as sad as any mallet
- as safe as
- as safe as a bug in a rug
- as safe as eggs
- as safe as houses