Crossword-Solution: DICTUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dictum | n. | An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm. |
| Dictum | n. | A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. |
| Dictum | n. | The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. |
| Dictum | n. | An arbitrament or award. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with DICTUM (5)
Here, in the quiet of Boldwood’s parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
Whatever negations of this dictum our own systems of charitable organizations may appear to offer, there can be no question but that in Russia it held and holds true.
The judge who sat on Muir and Palmer, the famous Braxfield, let fall from the bench the _obiter dictum_—‘I never liked the French all my days, but now I hate them.’ If Thomas Smith, the Edinburgh Spearman, were in court, he must have been tempted to applaud.
When Shakespeare pronounced his celebrated dictum about art's holding the mirror up to nature, he was no doubt alluding to the circumstance that a mirror reverses everything which it reflects.
They could change a government, or crush the aspirations of a whole people, or decide a question of peace or war, by the silent dictum of their little family council.
Quotes with DICTUM (3)
Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of the way in which these phenomenological investigations proceed. This raises the question of the character of method in ontology. Thus we come to the third part of the course: the scientific method of ontology and the idea of phenomenology. The method of ontology, that is, of philosophy in general, is distinguished by the fact that ontology has nothing in commo…
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and liv…
Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1972–2022).