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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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Divine :: Divine (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.

Prognosticate :: Prognosticate (v. t.) To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil..

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..

Benedictus :: Benedictus (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Presage :: Presage (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness..

Unblest :: Unblest (a.) Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched..

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction..

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The act of blessing.

Austromancy :: Austromancy (n.) Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds..

Cluniac :: Cluniac (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a..

Edict :: 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..

Blessing :: Blessing (v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces..

Forespeaking :: Forespeaking (n.) A prediction; also, a preface..

Forbiddance :: Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Anathema :: Anathema (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

Farewell :: Farewell (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow..

Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..

Mass :: Mass (n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus..

Predicting :: Predicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Predic.