单词 | edict |
释义 | edictn. 1. That which is proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a sovereign to his subjects; an ordinance or proclamation having the force of law; esp. the edicts of the Roman prætors, and subsequently of the emperors, and of the French monarchs. Edict of Nantes, an edict issued by Henry IV of France, granting toleration to the Protestants; revoked by Louis XIV. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute doomc825 i-setnessec900 setnessc950 edict1297 statutec1300 purveyancea1325 assize1330 ordinancec1330 decreetc1374 constitutionc1380 decree?a1400 sizea1400 stablementc1400 edictionc1470 stablishment1473 ordinationc1499 estatutea1514 placarda1530 prescript1532 golden bull1537 rescript1545 institute1546 institution1551 constitutec1561 sanction1570 decretal1588 ordain1596 decretum1602 invention1639 scite1656 dispositive1677 bull1696 ordonnance1702 subnotation1839 senatus consultum1875 fatwa1989 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance setnessc950 sandc1000 edict1297 statutec1300 proclamationa1325 justifyinga1382 rescritec1384 decree?a1400 thewsc1400 justification?a1475 ordinationc1499 dictamena1513 golden bull1537 dictate1604 process1604 dictament1615 dictation1651 fiata1750 diktat1941 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11966 Þe edit ywis. þat was þe ban of kenigwurþe. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A iij He dyd doo make an edycte or decree. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 12 With ane consent [they] contempnit that edik. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxx. f. 68v The creditours to be compelled by an edict of your maiesty, to holde them content with repayment of the summe..of the thynge that they lende. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 147 The Edicts of Prætors, and of the Ædiles. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 60 Monarchs at first governed..by immediate Edicts. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 97. ⁋4 By Our Royal Resolutions declared in this Edict as follow. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 204. ⁋9 He therefore fixed upon the gate of the palace an edict. 1845 J. T. Graves Rom. Law in Encycl. Metrop. 777/1 Constitutions of Justinian, improperly called edicts. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 34 Edicts were legislative ordinances issued by the emperor..and were analogous to the edicts of the prætors and ediles. 2. Scottish. ‘The name of a writ whereby all concerned were called by proclamation at the market cross or church-door, to appear for their interest in some cause... The term is used in ecclesiastical law for certain notices made to a congregation from the pulpit’ (Barclay Digest Laws Scotl. s.v.). ΚΠ 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. vi. 214 In 1636 the Council of Aberdeen ordain a public edict to be served at both the Kirk doors and at the College gate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † edictv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To publish (a law); to decree. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > decree putc1390 statute1397 inact1432 ordinance1440 enact1464 act1483 enactizea1618 edict1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 362 Some of them [Lycurgus' laws] were such, that old wives and slaves might easily have both predicted and edicted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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