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- noun Plural form of
edict .
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The rest of America entered the Fifties with “Leave it to Beaver” sitcoms, an expanding economy and a burgeoning middle class escaping from W. W.II, hungering and thirsting for homes and families, and watching the latest edicts from the fashion mavens.
jean casey | the death of fashion? « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Works, vol.i. p. 303.)] 35 The history of edicts is composed, and the text of the perpetual edict is restored, by the master-hand of Heineccius, (Opp.tom. vii.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Look who all have gotten Fuzzies under the Fuzzy laws, if one may so term the edicts of a bayonet-imposed Governor.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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Cicero calls his edicts "Archilochian," that is, as full of spite as the verses of Archilochus.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Cicero calls his edicts "Archilochian," that is, as full of spite as the verses of Archilochus.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Zeno recalled the edicts of Basiliscus, banished Peter Fullo from
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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On this hypothesis all his edicts are the utterances of a Buddhist.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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Hostilities, however, did not commence, since the emperor was desirous of uniting Germany against the Turks; and he therefore recalled his edicts of Worms and Augsburg against the Protestants, and made important concessions, and promised them undisturbed enjoyment of their religion.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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At times the edicts were the result of trumped up charges against the Jews or Judaism, and later proved to be false.
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008
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The only time that our leaders issue what Makhanya describes as "edicts" is only when they announce the consensus decisions arrived at through open democratic discussion.
ANC Today 2006
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