Ukase vs Fiat - What's the difference?
ukase | fiat | Related terms |
An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
* Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
* 1805 , The Times , 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 704:
(figuratively) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
* 2008 , Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books , July 2008:
An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
* 1788 , Alexander Hamilton,
(English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
(English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Ukase is a related term of fiat.
As a noun ukase
is (ukase).As a phrase fiat is
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Alternative forms
* ukaz/Ukaz * UkaseNoun
(en noun)- 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
- An Ukase , it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.
- 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.
- I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase ?
- 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) ----fiat
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Noun
(en noun)- The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat , would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; [...]