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Russian edict
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ukase
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A ukase , or ukaz (; , formally "imposition"), in Imperial Russia , was a proclamation of the tsar , government, or a religious leader ( patriarch ) that had the force of law. " Edict " and " decree " are adequate translations using the terminology and ...
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n. 1 An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor. 2 (context figuratively English) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
Usage examples of ukase.
One of the Russians looked askance at me, and said there was no doubt about it, as a ukase had been published ordering that the bridge should be built.
The first piece of news I heard was that a ukase had been issued, ordering the erection of a temple dedicated to God in the Moscoi opposite to the house where I resided.
Occidental peoples, but peoples called progressive, are subject to the most frequent and violent changes of fashions, not in generations only, but in decades and years of a generation, as if the mass had no mind or taste of its own, but submitted to the irresponsible ukase of tailors and modistes, who are in alliance with enterprising manufacturers of novelties.
I positively, flatly, definitely, and finally refuse rpt REFUSE to obey any order, directive, proclamation or ukase that requires me or any of my organization to hold two dozen of the latest model delGrange suits in a state of futile lassitude while Terra hungers for ore.
One of the Russians looked askance at me, and said there was no doubt about it, as a ukase had been published ordering that the bridge should be built.
Even when I was in Russia it was not allowable to doubt the infallibility of a ukase, and to do so was, equivalent to high treason.
The bridge was not built, but I was not justified, for the empress published another ukase in which she declared it to be her gracious pleasure that the bridge should not be built till the following year.