meaning of edict
1. 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.
2. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record as if issued by a court or judge; "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out
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