edict

n. decree, command, order

The EDICT project was started by Jim Breen in 1991 with the aim to provide a complete Japanese to English dictionary. Since that time it has been updated and expanded by many contributors. EDICT is simply a text file; other programs are needed to search and display it. Jim Breen's own on-line dictionary WWWJDIC is a convenient way of accessing the wealth of information contained in EDICT.
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An edict is an announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism. The Pope and various micronational leaders are currently the only persons who still issue edicts.
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Noun
1. a formal or authoritative proclamation
(hypernym) announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration
2. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
(synonym) decree, fiat, order, rescript
(hypernym) act, enactment
(hyponym) consent decree
(classification) law, jurisprudence

n. edict, decree, command, order

(n.)
A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.