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an order — typically a formal proclamation or a legally binding court decree

edict = order

Constantine issued an edict for religious tolerance throughout the Roman Empire.

edict = order

I wore pink to the gala and talked publicly about how we had defied the Taliban edict and carried on going to school secretly.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

edict = order

They made some recommendations, and edicts went out that families must start eating together again.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

edicts = orders

I had been handed an edict worse than a thousand advertisements for pasta makers.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle

edict = order

edict = order

Where is the staircase, from which Charles VI promulgated his edict of pardon?
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

edict = order

Indeed, the name of Bernajoux was known to all the world, d'Artagnan alone excepted, perhaps; for it was one of those which figured most frequently in the daily brawls which all the edicts of the cardinal could not repress.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edicts = orders

I wrote about being afraid to go to school because of the Taliban edict and looking over my shoulder all the time.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

edict = order

edict = order

If you go on so, his Eminence will be forced to renew his company in three weeks, and I to put the edicts in force in all their rigor.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edicts = orders

You understand, Treville—an edict is still an edict, it is forbidden to fight, after all.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edict = an order — typically a formal proclamation or a legally binding court decree

You understand, Treville—an edict is still an edict, it is forbidden to fight, after all.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edict = order

He had petitioned the bishop for an edict which expressly forbade the Bohemian women to come and dance and beat their tambourines on the place of the Parvis;
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

edict = order

edicts = orders

So that in spite of edicts, ordinances, and decrees, there he is, captain of the Musketeers; that is to say, chief of a legion of Caesars, whom the king holds in great esteem and whom the cardinal dreads—he who dreads nothing, as it is said.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edicts = orders

The party was to take place at St. Germain, I believe, and they had appointed to meet at the Carmes-Deschaux, when they were disturbed by de Jussac, Cahusac, Bicarat, and two other Guardsmen, who certainly did not go there in such a numerous company without some ill intention against the edicts.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

edicts = orders

The right's only task was to advise the military in the elaboration of new edicts and new laws.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
I soaked away a year of cinders and grime and Mum Olga's orders and Hattie's edicts and Olive's demands.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

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