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A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued…

Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak.

-- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

Lifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

ition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical ch…

electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.

origin; to arise, to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.

lly in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. Right of eminent domain. (Law) See under Domain.

To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft.

ce, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.