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▪ I. edict|ˈiːdɪkt|
Also 3 edit, 5 edycte, 6 Sc. edik.
[ad. L. edictum (the earliest form a. OFr. edit), f. ēdīcĕre, f. ē out + dīcĕre to say. In 16th and 17th c. accented on the last syllable.]
1. That which is proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a sovereign to his subjects; an ordinance or proclamation having the force of law; esp. the edicts of the Roman prætors, and subsequently of the emperors, and of the French monarchs. Edict of Nantes, an edict issued by Henry IV of France, granting toleration to the Protestants; revoked by Louis XIV.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11966 Þe edit ywis. þat was þe ban of kenigwurþe. 1483Caxton Cato A iij, He dyd doo make an edycte or decree. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 12 With ane consent [they] contempnit that edik. 1541Elyot Image Gov. 114 The Creditours to be compelled by an Edict of your maiestee, to holde them content with repaiement of the summe..of the thyng that they lende. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 147 The Edicts of Prætors, and of the ædiles. 1683Brit. Speculum 60 Monarchs at first governed..by immediate Edicts. 1711Steele Spect. No. 97 ⁋4 By Our Royal Resolutions declared in this Edict as follow. 1752Johnson Rambl. No. 204 ⁋9 He therefore fixed upon the gate of the palace an edict. 1845Graves Rom. Law in Encycl. Metrop. 777/1 Constitutions of Justinian, improperly called edicts. 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 34 Edicts were legislative ordinances issued by the emperor..and were analogous to the edicts of the prætors and ediles.
fig.1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 151 If then true Louers haue beene euer crost, It stands as an edict in destinie. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii, The generall Edicts of nature. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 68 Law, Now styled God's, now Nature's edict?
2. Sc. ‘The name of a writ whereby all concerned were called by proclamation at the market cross or church-door, to appear for their interest in some cause... The term is used in ecclesiastical law for certain notices made to a congregation from the pulpit’ (Barclay Digest Laws Scotl. s.v.).
1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scot. ii. vi. 214 In 1636 the Council of Aberdeen ordain a public edict to be served at both the Kirk doors and at the College gate.
▪ II. † eˈdict, v. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. OF. édicter.]
trans. To publish (a law); to decree.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 362 Some of them [Lycurgus' laws] were such that old wives and slaves might easily have both predicted and edicted. |