Synonyms of the word

edict

• n. a proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

announcement

• n. An act of announcing, or giving notice.
• n. That which conveys what is announced.
• n. The content which is announced.

annunciation

• n. The act of annunciating.

declaration

• n. A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
• n. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
• n. The act or process of declaring.
• n. (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
• n. (law) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary…
• n. (computing) The specification of a variable's type.

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

enactment

• n. The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
• n. (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.

fiat

• n. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
• n. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
• n. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
• n. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
• v. (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

proclamation

• n. A statement which is proclaimed; a formal public announcement.

rescript

• n. (historical law) A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower…
• n. (canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential…
• n. A duplicate copy of a legal document.
• n. A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
• v. (transitive) To script again or anew.