An authoritative declaration.
An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding.
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 - it needed 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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