edicts in English

noun
1
an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.
Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.

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1. Summonses, decrees, edicts, warrants, patents of nobility.

2. Edicts were issued against engrossing the market.

3. A number of European countries passed edicts encouraging the Huguenots to immigrate.

4. It was out of these edicts that the modern-day notion of tolerance gradually evolved.

5. One of their edicts was a rule that all men must shave the hair of their pubis.

6. The Assize of Clarendon 1166); (b) the edicts or enactments made at such sessions; (c) the forms of action or procedures instituted by such edicts and available as writs to would-be litigants in the royal court (e.g

7. 5:9, NW, margin) Such divine edicts leave absolutely no room for a dedicated person to compromise.

8. All we want is a calm debate based on impartial considerations, without arbitrary edicts and without anathema.

9. 3 The play attacks the corruption and depravity of the nobility as well as unjust laws and edicts.

10. Rock-edicts that have challenged time stand huge and over-powering by the banks of the Daya River.

11. A Cavalier pledged to an order or ideal must uphold its edicts and is beholden to any anathema it has;

12. The curule Aediles, who were the magistrates responsible for the care and supervision of the markets, also issued edicts

13. Constantine’s highly advertised edicts in favor of the so-called Christians offer absolutely no proof that the man had been converted.

14. In other cases, women were beaten for failing to wear the precise type of abaya - a bulky head-to-toe garment - prescribed by local edicts.

15. His Libri ad Edictum embraced a commentary, not only on the edicts of the urban and peregrine praetors, but also on that of the curule aediles.

16. When Basiliscus received news of this danger, he hastened to recall his ecclesiastical edicts and to conciliate the Patriarch and the people, but it was too late.

17. The Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan and the edicts of Aśoka suggest that the Buddhist monks spread Buddhism (Dharma) in eastern provinces of the Seleucid Empire, and possibly even farther into West Asia.

18. The Allahabad pillar is a Stambha, containing one of the Pillars edicts of Ashoka, possibly erected by Ashoka, Emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE or it may have prior origins

19. The Arpent that was a unit of land area was equal to one hundred square perches, and was so defined by royal edicts of October 1557 and March 1566 (but they also defined the perche as …

20. Aise -2020 respects the edicts of all the countries regarding the ongoing pandemic COVID 2019 and thus has decided to reschedule the conference dates to January 18 th-20 th, 2021 instead of November 27 th-29 th, 2020.

21. As to the interdiction by the non-intercourse act, I Apprehend that was founded on the violation of our neutral rights by the belligerent powers, the President of the United States being authorized to renew trade whenever the edicts violating our lawful commerce should be revoked.

22. Antigua Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Antigua or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Antigua ; and, (c) act under

23. Antigua Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Antigua or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Antigua ; and, (c) act under