An authoritative order or decree; an edict. 布告通令权威的命令或法令;权令
An official or authoritarian declaration; a proclamation or an edict. 宣言,公告官方或权威性的宣布;公告或法令
A decree or edict rendered at such a session. 审讯令这样一开庭的传令或命令
edict
[ noun ]
a formal or authoritative proclamation
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a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
<noun.communication> a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Edict \E"dict\, n. [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. ['e]dit. See {Diction}.] 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.
It stands as an edict in destiny. --Shak.
{Edict of Nantes} (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.
Despite congressional approval of the act, several legislators expressed concern over the precedent of closing a station through government edict instead of through the courts.
Strote had put out an edict against me," said Heller, who first served as Liberace's manager in 1950.
The Inquisition was the brutal tool to enforce that edict.
Rushdie, in hiding in Britain since a 1989 death edict from the late Ayatollah Khomeini for blaspheming Islam in "The Satanic Verses," has disowned statements in the novel.
Under the edict, woman must only wear a traditional head-to-toe blanket-like covering.
You've got to go from 400 to 40." He cites a power-tool maker that went from 250 different sized bearings to 12 by management edict.
The wildcat strikers are under orders by U.S. District Judge Dennis Knapp to refrain from encouraging strikes, but the union workers have flouted the edict since it was issued last week.
And these changes must be established by writ of law rather than through executive edict, in order to provide the imprimatur of stability.
Rushdie was at his north London home last Valentine's Day, when the British Broadcasting Corp. told him of Khomeini's edict.
Relations between Tehran and London were severed in February after Khomeini issued an edict calling on Moslems to kill British writer Salman Rushdie.
A third woman, listening in, adds her two cents' worth: She questions the wisdom of the recent government edict creating nonsmoking sections in restaurants.
He also refers to an edict from Mr. Wells that the unit limit its losses to $20 million in fiscal 1992.
In the immediate aftermath of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's edict against Salman Rushdie, it was widely assumed that Islam, Iran and "The Satanic Verses" would be rendered off bounds as subjects for critical discussion.
In announcing plans to propose Romero for beatification, the first step toward sainthood, the church has instructed its officials to ensure observation of the "non cultu" edict.
Last month Khomeini urged Moslems in a fatwa, or religious edict, to kill Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel "The Satanic Verses."
The protest violated a recent government edict requiring that all demonstrations be approved in advance.
Khomeini died in Iran on June 3, but his edict endures.
Robert Crandall, chairman at AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, is slashing operational costs in a campaign that includes an edict to workers to turn off lights after quitting time.
No thanks." Majorca's prosperous Jewish community, like those throughout medieval Spain, ceased to exist in 1492 when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued an edict that gave Jews the choice of converting to Catholicism or fleeing the country.
Ben Sugar, a retired economics lecturer who has lived in York since the 1930s, says many Jews believe a rabbinical edict forbids them to live here.