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Definition of Edict
Edict

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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Edict Translations

edict in Latin is decretum
edict in Spanish is decreto


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