dictum

This was the dictum of those in authority and the underlings were only too eager to fulfil it to the letter.

The big fellow in the firelight stressed inevitability in his dictum.

He was sitting in the butlers pantry, sipping his one glass of port, when Sophronia entered and delivered her dictum.

And this dictum gave rise to some rather embarrassing situations on more occasions than one.

If by himself, then there is again the infinitely recurring series according to the dictum.

We must accept, with all its consequences, the dictum of universal consciousness that man is free.

She would test the dictum; now, if ever, she would write humorously.

A widespread fatalistic conception is expressed in the Cornishman's dictum on ore, "Where it is, there it is."

Kant's dictum, it will be observed, omits all opinion as to its quality, and his own criticism of it left it a sorry wreck.

Too many people, accepting this as a dictum, take no pains to make the acquaintance of the great Dutch master.