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- Dictionaryedict/ˈiːdɪkt/
noun
- 1. an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority: "Clovis issued an edict protecting Church property"
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2 days ago · Most of these traditions were preserved outside India in Sri Lanka, Central Asia, and China. Even after the edicts were deciphered, it was believed that they corroborated the assertions of the Buddhist sources, because in some of the edicts Ashoka avowed his personal support of Buddhism.
2 days ago · In February he and Gratian had published an edict that all their subjects should profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria (i.e., the Nicene faith), or be handed over for punishment for not doing so.
2 days ago · in 1614, Ieyasu was sufficiently concerned about Spanish territorial ambitions that he signed a Christian Expulsion Edict. The edict banned the practice of Christianity and led to the expulsion of all foreign missionaries. Although some smaller Dutch trading operations remained in Nagasaki.
3 days ago · e. The derivative is a fundamental tool of calculus that quantifies the sensitivity of change of a function 's output with respect to its input. The derivative of a function of a single variable at a chosen input value, when it exists, is the slope of the tangent line to the graph of the function at that point.
5 days ago · a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
5 days ago · Northampton, and his in-house antiquarian, Sir Robert Cotton, had been gathering documentation and reviewing remedies for the problem since 1609, when Henry IV of France had highlighted the whole problem by issuing his own anti-duelling edict.
2 days ago · Definitions. Raphael Lemkin was a Polish Jew who lost over 50 relatives during the Holocaust. As a lawyer, he understood that a new term was required to describe the horror to which he bore witness. Lemkin coined the term “genocide” while acting as a key player in the shaping of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Lemkin 1944:19).
2 days ago · The alternative to the constitution of hierarchy is not political egalitarianism, but an alternative hierarchy of arbitrary and exploitative rule, dominated by an economic and social class of optimates. In one of the most famous passages in all of the classical Western law, the Roman jurist Ulpian wrote that “ [a] decision given by the ...
5 days ago · Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, is surprised at the ban placed on the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources who is also lawmaker for Damongo Samuel Abu Jinapor from visiting any palace in Gonjaland.
2 days ago · We asked some experts what they thought about more power being handed over and whether it would become burdensome. He said: “Pharmacies and pharmacists often find themselves facing increased demands and workloads, especially due to overall strains being placed on the NHS and wait times. Many people will visit their local pharmacy for medical ...
