EDICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edict mean? 

• EDICT (noun)
  The noun EDICT has 2 senses:

1. a formal or authoritative proclamation

2. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

  Familiarity information: EDICT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal or authoritative proclamation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("edict" is a kind of...):

announcement; annunciation; declaration; proclamation (a formal public statement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

decree; edict; fiat; order; rescript

Context example:

a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there

Hypernyms ("edict" is a kind of...):

act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edict"):

consent decree (an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt)

curfew (an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited)

decree nisi (a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date)

imperial decree (a decree issued by a sovereign ruler)

judicial separation; legal separation (a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart)

programma (an edict that has been publicly posted)

ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)

stay (a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted)

bull; papal bull (a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla))

 Context examples 

Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)