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ukase

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ukase
1. (in imperial Russia) an edict of the tsar
2. a rare word for edict


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The people's minds were tuned to a high pitch and this was too simple and needlessly comprehensible- it was what any one of them might have said and therefore was what an ukase emanating from the highest authority should not say.
And, like his olden nights, his ukase went forth that there should be no quarrelling nor fighting, offenders to be dealt with by him personally.
The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.
 
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