Stricture vs Dictum - What's the difference?
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(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
a sternly critical remark or review
(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(obsolete) strictness
(obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
* 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, (Earth Abides)
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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Stricture is a related term of dictum.
As nouns the difference between stricture and dictum
is that stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action while dictum is an authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.stricture
English
Noun
(en noun)- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
dictum
English
(wikipedia dictum)Noun
(en-noun)- ...a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound...