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(n.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Edict'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/edict.html. 1828.
 
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