Examples of 'dictum' in a sentence
Meaning of "dictum"
Dictum is a short statement or remark that expresses a general truth or principle. It is often used in legal contexts to refer to a judge's ruling or statement
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- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- An arbitrament or award.
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Dictum sapienti sat est up his ass.
And then you make a sort of a dictum.
This wise dictum fully applies to politics.
This book follows this dictum faithfully.
This dictum by necessity applies across the board.
Sze demonstrates the truth of his dictum.
Some have adapted that dictum to capitalism.
In the dictum of the fathers it is written.
No scientific or other evidence is quoted in support of this dictum.
I mean like the dictum was there is no action at a distance.
With dark memories of a rigid dictum.
Synonyms include dictum and pronouncement.
The dictum is regular physical activity.
An old scholastic dictum is helpful here.
This dictum bears serious reexamination.
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There was even a sort of dictum that he coined when he.
It was a dictum that her grandmother reiterated on a daily basis.
This is a fundamental dictum of objective science.
Agrarianism is thus a revolutionary conservative dictum.
This is a dictum to prevent heart disease.
Is to follow the proper dictum of society.
I guess that dictum does not apply to news organizations.
I take it from this little dictum.
Follow the proper dictum of society.
It seemed to me a trivial and harmless dictum.
The basic dictum of pedagogy is to begin where the learner is.
I have always believed in that dictum.
The dictum was liberally applied.
I try to remain true to his dictum.
This difference reflects the dictum of form following function.
The tendency is simply to accumulate an inventory of conventional dictum.
It lacks that apostolic dictum that sometimes he can give.
Only the stable ones can stand up to such dictum.
This is the dictum of sages.
The other parts of the judgement are referred to as obiter dictum.
That dictum was directed to a very specific issue of jurisdictional locus standi.
The function of a hat is to follow the proper dictum of society.
No one disputes the dictum that prevention is better than cure.
Thinking globally and acting locally is almost a universal dictum.
This dictum is not for the weak and the meek.
Data for some audiences may be dictum for others.
The same dictum can apply to the use of atomic energy.
More than eighty years later we find another dictum.
This dictum does not mean that each opinion is completely correct.
That is our dictum.
This is one dictum that he shared with his children and people.
Medieval alchemical dictum.
I can not offer a dictum for you from so far away.
God created everybody equal and we should follow this dictum.
Africa has always believed in the dictum that in unity there is strength.
