ukase

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An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor

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.

Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation

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.

{n} a proclamation or royal order in Russia
{i} legally binding order or decree made by a Russian Czar; legally binding edict or command made by any absolute ruler
In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law
an authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially from the tsarist Russian government
an edict of the Russian tsar

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ukases
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ukase

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    /ˈyo͞oˌkāz/ /ˈjuːˌkeɪz/

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    () From Russian указ (ukáz, “edict, decree”), from Old East Slavic указъ (ukáz, “edict”), from указать (ukazat’, “to show, decree”), from Old Church Slavonic указати (ukazati, “to show, decree”), itself formed from the intensifying prefix у- (u-) (denoting a concrete purpose) + казати (kazati, “to show, order”). Compare Dutch oekaze, German Ukas, etc.