0 an official order, especially one that is given in a forceful and unfair way: --
1 a public order given by an authority: --
a court edict
How credible, though, is the edict's view of religious rationalism as itself a form of proselytism?
This trend served the state, in so far as it had allowed the bureaucracy to use print media to publicize legal decisions and edicts.
Under the rule-based model, a single governmental edict can visit sweeping change on an entire industry.
Accounts of worship services appear both in gazetteers and in memorials and imperial edicts.
The anti-shroffing edict was generally two-fold, consisting of a ban on shroffing and on trading in bad coins.
Several rather evident features of the edict, however, make the wide acceptance of this view puzzling.
Military coups and edicts took place in 1960, 1972 and 1980, interrupting the democratic process several times.
A law, once passed, supercedes presidential edicts and decrees.
