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What does ukase mean?

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Noun
  1. An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
  2. (figuratively) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
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Am I to expect tomorrow your ukase that I give up Scotch and soda or your patronage?
So long as he lives, perhaps, no ukase will silence the Hatti-scherif of the padishad beyond the Arpatschai.
The ukase also prohibited American and other foreign shipping from approaching within one hundred miles of the shoreline.
A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest.
Back here in the present, though, the drug czar's latest ukase, ninety-five stupagesng pages long, was issued last week.
Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase, at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome.

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