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Decree vs Ukase - What's the difference?

decree | ukase |

Decree is a see also of ukase.


As nouns the difference between decree and ukase

is that decree is an edict or law while ukase is an authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a russian czar or (later) emperor.

As a verb decree

is to command by a decree.

decree

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An edict or law.
  • * Bible, Luke ii. 1
    • There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree ?
  • (legal) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
  • (legal) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.

    • Usage notes

    * It is accurate to use the word judgment' for a decision of a '''court of law''', and '''decree''' from a ' court of equity , although the former term now includes both.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (d)
  • To command by a decree.
    • A court decrees a restoration of property.
  • * Bible, Job xxii. 28
    • Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.

    Anagrams

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    ukase

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ukaz/Ukaz * Ukase

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
  • * Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
    • Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories
  • * 1805 , The Times , 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:
    • An Ukase , it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 704:
    • The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.
  • (figuratively) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
    • I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase ?
  • * 2008 , Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books , July 2008:
    • It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases .

    See also

    * decree * edict * ("ukase" on Wikipedia) ----