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ukase

ˈjuˌkeɪz
WordNet
  1. (n) ukase
    an edict of the Russian tsar
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ukase
    an order or edict by someone holding absolute authority.
  2. Ukase
    In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) ukase
    An edict or order, legislative or administrative, emanating from the Russian government. Ukases have the force of laws till they are annulled by subsequent decisions. A collection of the ukases issued at different periods, made by order of the emperor Nicholas, and supplemented since year by year, constitutes the legal code of the Russian empire.
  2. (n) ukase
    Hence Any official proclamation.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Ukase
    ū-kās′ a Russian decree having the force of law, emanating from the Czar directly or from the senate: any official proclamation.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F., fr. Russ. ukas',; pref. u-, + kazate, to show, to say

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Russ. ukazŭ, an edict—y-, prefix, kazatĭ, show.

Usage in literature

The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands. "John Barleycorn" by Jack London

That was the initial blunder which the ukase alluded to was subsequently issued to rectify. "The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference" by Emile Joseph Dillon

By an ukase he ordered that all children throughout the country should be educated. "Fred Markham in Russia" by W. H. G. Kingston

Russia, by an imperial ukase, March 25, 1820, banished them thence. "Mysticism and its Results" by John Delafield

You knew she has been awfully nice to us in spite of the oil stove ukase. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

When I showed my ukase, and demanded to see my relations, they simply showed me two graves. "Fifty-Two Stories For Girls" by Various

Then came a ukase, ordering the immediate return home of all Russian girls abroad. "Condemned as a Nihilist" by George Alfred Henty

A lump arose in my throat, for I saw, as the General pointed out, that my pretended ukase did not extend beyond my own person. "The Count's Chauffeur" by William Le Queux

He might as well have been reading me ukases from the Romonoff Czar in the undiluted Russian. "The Portal of Dreams" by Charles Neville Buck

A ukase of Catharine II. "Women of the Teutonic Nations" by Hermann Schoenfeld