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ukase

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ukase (plural ukases)

An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
- c. 1844, 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.

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