different between ukase vs fiat

English

Alternative forms

• ukaz/Ukaz
• Ukase

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (ukáz, “edict, decree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??ke?z/

Noun

ukase (plural ukases)

1. An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
   • c. 1844, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories […]

   • 1805, The Times, 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:

     An Ukase, it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.

   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 704:

     The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.

2. (figuratively) Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation
   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?

   • 2008, Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books, July 2008:

     It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases.

Translations

See also

• decree
• edict
• ukase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ukaz in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Akesu

French

Alternative forms

• oukase

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (ukáz, “edict, decree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.kaz/, /u.kaz/

Noun

ukase m (plural ukases)

1. (historical) ukase (a decree from a Russian ruler, or any absolute or arrogant order)
2. edict, dictate

Descendants

• ? Dutch: oekaze

See also

• décret m
• édit m
• loi
• ordonnance

Further reading

• “ukase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• ucase

Noun

ukase m (invariable)

1. ukase

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ucase

Noun

ukase m (plural ukases)

1. ukase (proclamation by a Russian ruler)

English

Etymology

From Latin f?at (“let it be done”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?æt/, /?fi.æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

fiat (plural fiats)

1. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist no. 73

     The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; [...]

2. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.

3. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
4. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.

Translations

Derived terms

• fiat money
• fiat currency

Verb

fiat (third-person singular simple present fiats, present participle fiating, simple past and past participle fiated)

1. (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fiat.

References

• fiat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• fita

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fi?at/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

fiat m (feminine fiada, masculine plural fiats, feminine plural fiades)

1. past participle of fiar

Latin

Verb

f?at

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of f??: "may it become", "may it be made", "may it happen"
2. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of faci?: "may it become", "may it be made", "may it happen"