dictum

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They provided things honest in the sight of all men Paul set the example during his itinerate ministry by working at his trade to secure his support and his dictum has been accepted as both divine and human wisdom ever since.

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  1. noun An authoritative, often formal pronouncement: "He cites Augustine's dictum that 'If you understand it, it is not God'” (Joseph Sobran).
  2. noun Law See obiter dictum.

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  • They provided things honest in the sight of all men Paul set the example during his itinerate ministry by working at his trade to secure his support and his dictum has been accepted as both divine and human wisdom ever since. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
  • No one had a harsh word for him now, and even Brother Dyer wiped his eyes and whispered to his next neighbor, "Dat man sholy did sleep to some pu'pose," although he knew that the dictum was a deathblow to his own pastoral hopes. —  The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
  • Your dictum is the last word to be said about anything But Berkeley still looked sulky. —  The Purple Heights
  • The atheist of her dictum was the distinguished and misanthropic old Professor Kennedy, head of the Department of Mathematics, whose ample means and high social connections with the leading family of La Chance made his misanthropy a source of much chagrin to the faculty ladies, and who professed for the Marshalls, for Mrs. Marshall in particular, a wrong-headed admiration which was inexplicable to the wives of the other professors. —  The Bent Twig
  • Paul set the example during his itinerate ministry by working at his trade to secure his support and his dictum has been accepted as both divine and human wisdom ever since. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
 

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  1. Latin, from neuter past participle of dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French dictum = Swedish dictum, from Latin dictum, something said, a word, a witty saying, a proverb, an order, neuter of dictus, past participle of dīcĕre, say: see diction. In older English form dict, q. v.
 

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