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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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Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning..

Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Annul :: Annul (a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority..

Benedictive :: Benedictive (a.) Tending to bless.

Valediction :: Valediction (n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell.

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..

Foreteller :: Foreteller (n.) One who predicts.

Imperial :: Imperial (a.) Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict..

Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

Predict :: Predict (n.) A prediction.

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..

Curse :: Curse (v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction..

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

Calculate :: Calculate (v. i.) To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity..

Vaticinate :: Vaticinate (v. i. & t.) To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated a die Incarnationis, i. e., from the day of the Incarnation. See Apostolical brief, under Brief..

Programma :: Programma (n.) An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.

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..

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..

Horoscopy :: Horoscopy (n.) The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events..