ukase
/juːˈkeɪz/
ukase noun: an authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
Noun (1)
ukase (plural ukases)
- An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
- 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 […]c. 1844, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- An Ukase, it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.1805 May 6, The Times, page 3, column C
- Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation
- I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?1965, John Fowles, The Magus
- 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...2008 July, Stephen Burt, “Kick Over the Scenery”, in London Review of Books
- Synonyms:
- diktat
Noun (2) capitalized: Ukase
Ukase
- Alternative letter-case form of ukase.
Examples of ukase in a sentence
- I issued the ukase: “If you have a friend of the female sex, you are a red-blooded American boy; if you have a friend of the feminine gender, you have an unnatural attachment to a word.”1984 August 5, William Safire, “Goodbye Sex, Hello Gender”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- 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.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 704:
Synonyms of ukase
Forms of ukase
| plural | ukases |
|---|---|
| alternative form | ukaz |
| alternative form | Ukaz |
| alternative form | Ukase |
Origin of ukase
Borrowed from Russian ука́з (ukáz, “edict, decree”).
Words that rhyme with ukase
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- amaze
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- craze
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- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
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- liaise
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- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
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- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about ukase
- What does ukase mean?
- Ukase means an authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
- How do you use ukase in a sentence?
- I issued the ukase: “If you have a friend of the female sex, you are a red-blooded American boy; if you have a friend of the feminine gender, you have an unnatural attachment to a word.”
- What part of speech is ukase?
- Ukase is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ukase?
- Ukase is pronounced /juːˈkeɪz/.
- What is the plural of ukase?
- The plural of ukase is ukases.
Words near ukase in the dictionary
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