Meanings
plural edicts
- 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.
1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 8441 more example
It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.
2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2019
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchedit
- Latinedictum
- Middle Englishedycte
- Englishedict
From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
More words from Middle English, Latin, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek δόγμα
- δόγμα (dógma)proclamation of law
Arabic مَرْسُوم
- مَرْسُوم (marsūm)proclamation of law
Bulgarian декрет, указ
- декрет (dekret)proclamation of law
- указ (ukaz)proclamation of law
Catalan edicte
- edicteproclamation of law
Chinese Mandarin 法令
- 法令 (fǎlìng)proclamation of law
Czech výnos, edikt
- výnosproclamation of law
- ediktproclamation of law
Dutch edict
- edictproclamation of law
Finnish julistus, edikti
- julistusproclamation of law
- ediktiproclamation of law
French édit
- éditproclamation of law
German Edikt
- Ediktproclamation of law
Greek διάταγμα, χρυσόβουλο
- διάταγμα (diátagma)proclamation of law
- χρυσόβουλο (chrysóvoulo)proclamation of law
Hebrew הוראה, צו
- הוראה (horaá)proclamation of law
- צו (tsav)proclamation of law
Hungarian ediktum
- ediktumproclamation of law
Indonesian maklumat
- maklumatproclamation of law
Italian editto
- edittoproclamation of law
Japanese 勅令
- 勅令 (chokurei)proclamation of law
Latin ēdictum
- ēdictumproclamation of law
Polish edykt, dekret
- edyktproclamation of law
- dekretproclamation of law
Portuguese edito, édito
- editoproclamation of law
- éditoproclamation of law
Romanian edict
- edictproclamation of law
Russian ука́з, эдикт
- ука́з (ukáz)proclamation of law
- эдикт (edikt)proclamation of law
Slovak edikt, dekrét
- ediktproclamation of law
- dekrétproclamation of law
Spanish edicto
- edictoproclamation of law
Swedish edikt, kungörelse
- ediktproclamation of law
- kungörelseproclamation of law
- påbudproclamation of law
Thai ประกาศ
- ประกาศ (bprà-gàat)proclamation of law
Yiddish גזירה
- גזירה (gezeyre)proclamation of law
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
edict. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edict
“edict.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edict. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “edict,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edict.
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