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Meanings of dictum in English
Catalan
aforisme Spanish
pronunciamiento An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding.
Spanish
dictamen Synonyms
Examples for "dicta"
Examples for "dicta"
1
Keeping to church dicta can be very difficult, even for an archbishop.
2
Every one of these dicta appears to be open to serious objection.
3
And did the expert utter any further authoritative dicta on the matter?
4
Now, scholars are debating whether his Commerce Clause statements are dicta or not.
5
Some of his obiter dicta have the whiff of Edenic innocence about them.
Usage of dictum in English
1
Such dictum gives the lie in arrogant fashion, to healthful human experience.
2
He translates E. M. Forster's modest dictum into rugged Americanese: always connect.
3
They are humaner, was one dictum; they are more frivolous, ironically another.
4
Agatha waited for his dictum-itneeded very little skill to decide that.
5
That was the dictum of Franklin Taylor, Farmer, on Rural Route No.
6
Shelby was at no loss to give this dictum its true interpretation.
7
So, obeying John Simpson's dictum, I wrote to him at the Observer.
8
Never has there been such an instant repudiation of Connolly's dismal dictum.
9
These preannouncements must be cast aside if the critic's dictum is accepted.
10
Common sense, and justice, and fitness, all rebel at such a dictum.
11
He railed at the old dictum that man was God's noblest work.
12
It was unutterably slow, as it always was, according to Vandeuvres's dictum.
13
That had been James's first dictum, and he adopted it from conviction.
14
Hoppie's dictum to me, First with the head and then with the
15
It has issued a new dictum: Male and Female -He Created Them.
16
He wanted to, but the dictum was too strong - just too strong.
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Translations for dictum
Portuguese
Dictum through the time
Dictum across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common