Crossword clues for ukase
ukase
- Broadcasting our nation's decree
- Imperial edict from this country when close to catastrophe
- Tsarist decree
- Authoritative proclamation
- Tsar's edict
- Czar's proclamation
- Order from a czar
- Czar's order
- Tsar's decree
- Edict of a sort
- Authoritative edict
- Arbitrary command
- Tsarist edict with the force of law
- Tsar's proclamation
- Russian imperial decree
- Romanov-era edict
- Romanov edict
- Proclamation of a tyrant
- Old Russian edict
- Official edict
- Emperor's proclamation
- Emperor's edict
- Edict's cousin
- Edict of the tsar
- Edict of the Russian tsar
- Czar's directive
- Authoritarian edict
- Any official proclamation
- Imperial decree
- Decree in imperial Russia
- Proclamation of the czar
- Pronouncement
- Imperial pronouncement
- Czar's decree
- Czar's edict
- An edict of the Russian tsar
- Edict of a czar
- Official order
- Fiat's kin
- Czarist proclamation
- Bull of a sort
- Imperial edict
- Official proclamation
- Edict of the czar
- Edict in Odessa
- Russian edict
- Official decree
- Arbitrary proclamation
- Ivan's trade
- Russian order
- Imperial command
- Czar's say-so
- Autocratic order
- Edict that puts our country at sea, confused
- Ruling country's in talks
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ukase \U*kase"\, n. [F., fr. Russ. ukas'; pref. u- + kazate to show, to say.]
In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.
an order or edict by someone holding absolute authority.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"decree issued by a Russian emperor," 1729, from Russian ukaz "edict," back-formation from from ukazat' "to show, decree, to order," from Old Church Slavonic ukazati, from u- "away," perhaps here an intensive prefix, from PIE *au- (2) "off, away" + kazati "to show, order," from Slavic *kaz- (related to the first element of Casimir), from PIE root *kwek- "to appear, show."
Wiktionary
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
WordNet
n. an edict of the Russian tsar
Wikipedia
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 concepts of Roman law.
From the Russian term, the word ukase has entered the English language with the meaning of "any proclamation or decree; an order or regulation of a final or arbitrary nature".
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.