Results for ukase

Definitions of ukase:

part of speech: noun

A Russian imperial decree having the force of law.

part of speech: noun

Formerly, a degree of the Czar of Russia taking effect as law; hence, any official degree or proclamation.

Usage examples for ukase:

• The facility with which individual liberty is curtailed, that continual alarm of all from the knowledge that they are liable to secret report, a governmental ukase and to the accusation of rebel or suspect, an accusation which, to be effective, does not need proof or the production of the accuser. "The Indolence of the Filipino", Jose Rizal

• And thus, after having so minutely absorbed my Georgia, here was this ukase obliging me to abandon it! "The Adventures of a Special Correspondent", Jules Verne

• Had he tamely submitted to Napoleon's ukase and placed his fleet and his vast colonial empire at the service of France, it is doubtful whether even the high- souled Canning would not have stooped to surrender in face of odds so overwhelming. "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)", John Holland Rose