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Rudiment vs Dictum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between rudiment and dictum

is that rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural) while dictum is an authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.

rudiment

English

(wikipedia rudiment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
    • We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
  • Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
    • I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
  • * Milton
    • But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
  • * I. Taylor
    • The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
  • (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
  • (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

    • Hypernyms

    * (biology) vestigiality

    Derived terms

    * rudimental * rudimentary

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    dictum

    English

    (wikipedia dictum)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
  • * 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, (Earth Abides)
    • ...a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound...
  • A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
  • The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
  • An arbitrament or award.
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