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Commandment vs Ukase - What's the difference?

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Commandment is a related term of ukase.


As nouns the difference between commandment and ukase

is that commandment is one of the ten commandments while ukase is (ukase).

commandment

English

Alternative forms

* commaundment (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.
  • * Bible, John xiii. 34
    • A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.
  • The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And therefore put I on the countenance / Of stern commandment .
  • (legal) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

    • 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) ----