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ukase | mandate |

As a noun ukase

is (ukase).

As a verb mandate is

.

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) ----

    mandate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
  • Verb

    (mandat)
  • to authorize
  • to make mandatory
  • Derived terms

    * mandatary * mandator * mandatory