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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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..
Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..
Predictional :: Predictional (a.) Prophetic; prognostic.
Germanium :: Germanium (n.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3..
Predictory :: Predictory (a.) Predictive.
Augurate :: Augurate (v. t. & i.) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..
Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Weird :: Weird (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
Predictive :: Predictive (a.) Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.
Unpredict :: Unpredict (v. i.) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.
Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
Programma :: Programma (n.) An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.
Benison :: Benison (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.
Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
Benedictine :: Benedictine (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet..
Book :: Book (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory..
Prophet :: Prophet (n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller..
Refugee :: Refugee (n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes..
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