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Edict

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Edict meaning

A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

Example sentences (20)

The edict, also known as the Edict of Toleration and the Edict of January, was significant for effectively recognising the existence of Protestant churches and permitting their worship outside city walls.

In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg declared the Edict of Potsdam (October 1685), giving free passage to Huguenot refugees, and tax-free status to them for ten years.

In this way a constant content was created that proceeded from edict to edict (edictum traslatitium).

One day, Orestes published an edict "regarding public exhibitions in the city of Alexandria" and all citizens gathered to read the edict.

The Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes, and repealed all the privileges that arose therefrom.

The language of the edict calls on the people's memory of their benevolent leaders, and exhorts them to enforce the provisions of the edict, and thereby restore perfection to the world.

Treadgold, pg. 352 Although Leo made no move to enforce this edict in the west beyond having it read in Rome and Ravenna, Gregory immediately rejected the edict.

When Herod's edict went forth to destroy the young children, John was about six months older than Jesus, and came under this hellish edict, and Zecharias caused his mother to take him into the mountains, where he was raised on locusts and wild honey.

Records show that the property was frozen in 2017 by the Crown Prosecution Service, pending proceeds of crime proceedings to sell it off, while a further edict preventing its transfer to another owner was put in place in 2023.

That edict persists at press time.

Defying the industrywide edict that all rappers must be late to their festival sets, Earthgang started right on time at the Now stage on Saturday night.

Foster said that there has been no edict from the state limiting the number of customers a store can have inside, but that some smaller local businesses have been doing so.

Her edict, effective today, is not only devastating but detrimental to the economy and job market.

His edict was pretty much law and he ruled the city with near dictatorial control.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII issued an edict outlining his calendar reforms.

In June, when King Sisolak issued a royal edict mandating masks, that was a plausible contention.

It was not clear exactly how the complex’s guards intended to enforce the edict, but one who was carrying out checks promised that the authorities would foot the bill.

Sparkle Pro was developed with a visual first edict, which is why their entire approach to website building never gets bogged down in HTML and CSS and stays focused on allowing users to visually adjust their page with the naked eye.

That is OK, allowed by the mask edict, even, and I am not here to shame them.

The music programs that involved different year groups would also have to be postponed, after an edict that year groups must be kept separate.