Edict
/ˈiː.dɪkt/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
"By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948."
- 2 a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) wordnet
- 3 a formal or authoritative proclamation wordnet
Example
More examples"The JMdict/EDICT project has as its goal the production of a freely available Japanese-English Dictionary in machine-readable form."
Etymology
From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.