All edict synonyms

noun edict

• statute — Law. an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. the document in which such an enactment is expressed.
• decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
• directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
• commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
• proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
• injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• precept — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
• regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
• ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• judgment — an act or instance of judging.
• fiat — an authoritative decree, sanction, or order: a royal fiat. Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
• dictum — A dictum is a formal statement made by someone who has authority.
• ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
• prescript — prescribed.
• canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• instrument — a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
• manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
• writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• law — software law
• dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
• pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
• ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
• announcement — An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
• pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement.
• diktat — a harsh, punitive settlement or decree imposed unilaterally on a defeated nation, political party, etc.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• statement — something stated.
• declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
• decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici