Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word EDICTS

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Definitions of EDICTS

1. plural of edict.

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Examples of Using EDICTS in a Sentence

• Among the few edicts of his to remain in force is the confirmation of the right of the pope to resign; nearly all of his other official acts were annulled by his successor, Boniface VIII.
• Barbaro, who had been sent to Corsica and Sardinia, reached Turres and published the imperial edicts against the Christians, was denounced by Proto, Gavino and Gianuario.
• Emperor Leo III issues a series of edicts banning the veneration of images (726–729), and launching the iconoclastic controversies.
• In a series of four edicts published from February 23, 303, to 304, the Christians are forbidden to worship in groups, are made to perform sacrifices, and must surrender sacred texts.
• Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts.
• The signing of the treaty for the Union of Utrecht, during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), was preceded by a whole series of unions, edicts and covenants.
• Imperial edicts enacted in the 5th century against paganism gave legal protection to pagans against personal maltreatment.
• Furthermore, he published a number of edicts reforming the law and administration of the territory with the aim of re-enforcing the power of the state.
• The scion and representative of heaven on earth, he was the ruler of all under heaven, the bearer of the Mandate of Heaven, his commands considered sacred edicts.
• The modern 6 can be traced back to the Brahmi numerals of India, which are first known from the Edicts of Ashoka.
• Canute issued edicts arrogating to himself the ownership of common land, the right to the goods from shipwrecks, and the right to inherit the possessions of foreigners and kinless folk.
• Following the issuing of the reformative edicts, a coup d'état was perpetrated by powerful conservative opponents led by Empress Dowager Cixi.
• This was followed by several edicts, for example prescribing that Protestant soldiers must also genuflect during a Catholic service.
• Prior to his reign, the Hanlin Academy was responsible for various clerical tasks such as drafting proclamations and edicts.
• Conversely, a lame duck is free to make decisions that exercise the standard powers with little fear of consequence, such as issuing executive orders, pardons, or other controversial edicts.
• The Germanization policies, built on the foundations of the Generalplan Ost, would later be carried through by a series of special edicts and guiding principles for the general settlement plans for Ostland.
• From afar, edicts were issued in her name, coins struck in her image, and she gave her protection to chapels and convents.
• Ashoka, the Great Mauryan King, defined the first laws in the world to protect flora and fauna in Edicts of Ashoka around the 3rd century B.
• While most of the national Greek-letter organizations still had rules restricting membership, a few chapters bucked the edicts and initiated Jews and African Americans.
• Afterwards, Glowworm patrolled Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War enforcing the edicts of the Non-Intervention Committee until she had a refit at Portsmouth between 27 May and 8 June 1937.
• Gallant patrolled Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War enforcing the edicts of the Non-Intervention Committee.
• The Mauryan Emperor Ashoka would convert to Buddhism and spread the religious philosophy throughout his domain, as recorded in the Edicts of Ashoka.
• Although Greek philosophers Plato and Socrates had discussed freedom of thought minimally, the edicts of King Ashoka (3rd century BC) have been called the first decree respecting freedom of conscience.
• In order to avoid engendering anti-colonial sentiments, the colonial government imposed edicts which censored letters that exiled individuals sent to their family and compatriots back home.
• The edicts of the Diet condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas, subjecting advocates of Lutheranism to forfeiture of all property, half of the seized property to be forfeit to the imperial government and the remaining half forfeit to the party who brought the accusation.

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