How To Use Dictum In A Sentence

Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum. Quitting Smoking
Quamdiu autem tales loquuntur sibi, aut literas ostendunt, circumstant Apparitores extensis brachijs leuatos tenentes mucrones, gladios, gezas, et mackas ad feriendum, et occidendum, si quid dictum vel nunciatum fuerit, quod Imperatori displiceat, quam citò ille signauerit trucidari. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Witch didn't much care, but she wasn't inclined to accept a unilateral dictum without a retort. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel? THE IRATE NATION

In pursuing the dictums of their scriptures venerating diversity, Hindu civilization is the only civilization which has never attacked any other civilization out of an impulse to convert.
The provincial governments are not far behind in their slavish adherence to the OECD's dictums on how to run your government.
In ch. ix, § 3, the _Dictum de omni et nullo_ was stated: 'Whatever may be predicated of a term distributed may be predicated of anything that can be identified with that term.' Logic Deductive and Inductive
A good test for whether the dictum has been developed in this way is a philosopher's account of akrasia, in which agents fail to comply with their deliberated verdicts in the face of temptation.
In ipsius translatione ipsa ciuitas restaurabatur, et firmabatur multò honorificentiùs, et fortiùs destructione sua, quæ per Carolum magnum Regem Franciæ antea fuit plenè annihilata, dum Ogerus dux Danorum præfatus in ea tenebatur captiuus, quem Templarij ad filios Brehir Regis Sarracenorum cum traditione vendiderant, eò quòd ipse Ogerus dictum Brehir in proelio occiderat, iuxta Lugdunum Franciæ ciuitatem. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
I don't - unlike some - have to stoop to declaratives like ‘I loathe’: I've tried to stick to William Goldman's dictum of ‘show, don't tell.’
Some say his most famous dictum is to "pick the time and place of your battles" ... Swine Flu
Quamdiu autem tales loquuntur sibi, aut literas ostendunt, circumstant Apparitores extensis brachijs leuatos tenentes mucrones, gladios, gezas, et mackas ad feriendum, et occidendum, si quid dictum vel nunciatum fuerit, quod Imperatori displiceat, quam cit� ille signauerit trucidari. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It is important to distinguish between the dictum and an assertoric sentence. The Statue of a Writer
The European project's founder Jean Monnet turned this into a dictum for the organisation of the European Union.
It's a sound principle: U.S. securities markets should operate under national rules, a dictum endorsed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Secretary Rumsfeld invoked Frederick the Great's dictum from General Principles of War: ‘What design would I be forming if I were the enemy?’
Tanais enim descendit in Mare Ponti: Etilia facit prædictum Mare siue lacum, cum alijs multis fluminibus, qua cadunt in ilium de Perside. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
Many are following the late William F. Buckley's famous dictum that he's "for the most conservative candidate who can be elected. What Iowa Says About the Religious Right
But as a RULE OF THUMB, the dictum is perfectly unexceptionable and modestly useful. Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
It's simply an aspect of Lord Acton's old dictum that ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
Quicquid ubique bene dictum facio meum, et illud nunc meis ad compendium, nunc ad fidem et auctoritatem alienis exprimo verbis, omnes auctores meos clientes esse arbitror, &c. Sarisburiensis ad Polycrat. prol. Anatomy of Melancholy
That is the point of his often quoted dictum: ‘The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.’
It is speculation to buy contemporary art in the expectation that it will appreciate more than average once the artist is dead, and here the above dictum is wise advice.
But it seems the time has come to reformulate the old dictum. The Times Literary Supplement
But if three people do it -- can you imagine, three people walking in and saying, this dictum is a pile of horseshit, singing it in harmony -- why, then we got ourselves a movement! An Open Letter to John C. Wright
Audieram ego in partibus Ierosolymorum hunc esse sic dictum, à filio Noe, Cham: sed in terra Cathay accepi et aliam, et meram huius rei veritatem. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Above all, he correctly interprets the poet's aim with the dictum: "Praeterquam quod hac persona optime utitur ad actionem bene continuandam id maxime spectat ut per eam _spectatorum risum_ captet. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
Apparently, the new dictum in the National Party is that if women members disagree with their leader, they are gone by lunchtime.
This dictum has resulted in some members posted ashore being required to complete significant periods at sea, with little certainty of the extent to which they may be used as an operational relief.
My faith in Henry James notwithstanding (recall the Jamesian dictum to allow the writer his/her donnée and criticize only what is made of it), that reader's comment lingered (obviously!), and its impact wasn't fully assuaged even when other, equally wise authority figures told me otherwise. Practicing Writing
What is the dictum on teams that do not end plurally? No Uncertain Terms
What is definite is that this process began outside India, and that the NRI proved over and over again the old dictum that Indians do well everywhere, as long as everywhere does not include India.
Now, the _Dictum_ requires that, in the major premise, P be predicated of a term distributed, from which it follows that no Mood can be valid whose major premise is particular, as in I.A.I. or O.A.O. Again, the _Dictum_ requires that the minor premise be affirmative Logic Deductive and Inductive
The Show not Tell dictum is one of the hard ones and if we are able to get that right, the novel seems to finally get legs of its own. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Elements of Awe
This book deserves to be widely read, especially among those who have regularly been subjected to Thomas Friedman and company's dictums.
But secondly, without committing ourselves to Professor Hudson's dictum that personality implies limitation, we have to point out that we are not concerned to defend any inference that might be drawn from the infinity, in the sense {81} of the "allness" of God. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
But it seems the time has come to reformulate the old dictum. The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Nichols acknowledges that what he calls a vulgar error was current and popular, that in some part of the Abbey Caxton did erect his press, yet we are expected to submit to the almost unsupported dictum of that gentleman, and renounce altogether the old and almost universal idea. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
This dictum makes a crucial distinction between the work that time or mischance has made a fragment, and the work composed as fragment.
Anheuser-Busch has reacted in Pattonesque style, emulating the general's dictum that a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Quicquid ubique bene dictum facio meum, et illud nunc meis ad compendium, nunc ad fidem et auctoritatem alienis exprimo verbis, omnes auctores meos clientes esse arbitror, &c. Sarisburiensis ad Polycrat. prol. Anatomy of Melancholy
In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music
Sed cùm ipsi, vt supradictum est, in tenebris ambulant, idcircò ignorantes Dei iustitiam, statuere volunt iustitiam, imo iniustitiam quam fabricant in corde suo, quia nos de cruce Christi scriptum nouimus, benedictum est lignum per quod fit iustitia. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum. Quitting Smoking
But this conflation of good times with devilry is like something out of a 17th century Puritan ethic which goes by the dictum that someone somewhere is enjoying themselves and this must be stopped immediately. Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?
These suggestions were just relatively unconsidered dictum - discussions of matters that really weren't at issue in the case - and are likely to be seen by the Court as having only modest precedential effect.
And now we can understand the meaning of the early Buddhist dictum that realization is attained by experiencing nirvana in the body.
She throws design dictums out of those simply adorned windows in favor of one rule: ‘A house with kids in it should be cheerful and comfortable.’
Hence the great clans, Habr Gerhajis and Awal, who prefer the matronymic — Habr signifying a mother, — since, according to their dictum, no man knows who may be his sire. 9 These increased and multiplied by connection and affiliation to such an extent that about 300 years ago they drove their progenitors, the Galla, from First footsteps in East Africa
Mr Morris emphasised the importance of a consensus between the three parties being reached, rather than a ministerial dictum imposed.
4 Et si Hibernenses qui aufugerint, redire voluerint ad terram baronum regis Angliæ, redeant in pace, reddendo tributum prædictum quod alij reddunt, vel faciendo antiqua seruicia quæ facere solebant pro terris suis. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
And you can't even have the sense of rigour because rigour is an authoritarian dictum in itself, which rules out other ways of approaching movement, for example perceiving something with gentleness.
As the dictum numina resolves the ruptura monstrum in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, here the monstrum dicta is resolved by its complement — Dionysus as the ruptura numen, in all his transgressive glory. Archive 2009-06-01
Tanais enim descendit in Mare Ponti: Etilia facit prædictum Mare siue lacum, cum alijs multis fluminibus, qua cadunt in ilium de Perside. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
The rest of the volume sets out to prove that dictum, invoking misprints and failed corrections as emblems for how people think and how the world makes of itself a kind of accidental sense.
Qvinam mortales Ægyptum antiquitus incoluerint, ante dictum set. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Many are following the late William F. Buckley's famous dictum that he's "for the most conservative candidate who can be elected. What Iowa Says About the Religious Right
For example, the authors accept the dictum that the nineteenth century Church was a ‘young men's Church’ while the twentieth century church is ‘a women's church’.
In conjunction, increasingly in evidence are the effects predicted by the dictum that all wars are politics by other means.
In the editorial office of the Kansas City newspaper where he served his apprenticeship, there was a kind of pressman's catechism, the first dictum of which was: «Use short sentences. Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 - Presentation Speech
Ab hoc monte Sion versus ciuitatem habetur Ecclesia dedicata sancto saluatori, in quo nunc dicuntur seruari ossa S. Stephani supradicti, et sinistrum brachium S. Ioannis Chrisostomi, cuius corpus vt dictum est requiescit Constantinopoli. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Yet, to paraphrase coarsely Márquez's dictum given by him both as a writer and a fighter for justice, the writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born. Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Lecture
Without it, through little fault of his own, Plutarch is left exposed as the supreme exemplar of the ageless dictum: never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Bolzano took this dictum to be about existence in his own narrow sense of ˜existence™ or Slices of Matisse
Our pronouncements to medical students are reinforced by a second dictum: always diagnose the treatable and important, even if it is not the most common or likely explanation for the patient's symptoms.
The problem seems to be that the supervenience definition of physicalism in effect presupposes something like Hume's dictum, in that it uses failure of necessitation as a test for distinctness. Physicalism
Partly in order to fit with the rest, but mostly due to curiosity or inner need, they gradually question all of the dictums coming from home.
And yet I keep having this feeling that folksonomy, and particularly amateur tagging, is profound in a way that the ‘no cheap metadata’ dictum doesn't cover.
Palatium suum duo millaria tenet in ambitu; cuius pauimentum semper vnum laterem habet aureum, alium argenteum: Iuxta ambitum istius palatij est vnus monticulus artificialis de auro et argento, super quo stant Monasteria, et campanilia, et alia delectabilia pro solatio illius popularis; Et dictum fuit mihi, quòd quatuor tales homines sunt in regno illo. The Journal of Friar Odoric
So following that dictum, I decided to get cross. Times, Sunday Times
This review is only testament to that old over-used dictum: A picture is worth a thousand words.
Note 2: RHF, 18: 728A: Ex historia episcoporum Autissiodorensium: "corpus pueri mortui, quod propter interdictum civitatis ecclesiasticam non poterat habere sepulturam, importuno matris pueri excitus clamore et lacrymis, in ipsa episcopi camera ante lectum domini sui episcopi fecit humari in contumeliam ejus et dei contemptum." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Hidden in this dictum is the danger of unlimited government, of the exercise of power untrammelled by the need for openness, transparency and accountability.
This seeming independence is reflected both the famous classical liberal dictum about limited government and in neoclassic economic’s view that markets are antecedent to government and that the government intervenes into markets. Juntas vs. Open Societies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Snytterfeld predicta gentilman et Johannem Porter de eadem meos veros et legitimos Attornatos conjunctim et divisim ad intrandum vice et nomine meo in predictum mesuagium cum omnibus et singulis premissis et pertinenciis suis quibuscunque et ad plenam et pacificam seisinam pro me ac vice et nomine meo inde capiendam et postquam hujusmodi seisina dicta capta fuerit ad deliberandam pro me ac vice et nomine meo prefatis Shakespeare's Family
Moreover, as Homeyer notes, "signa" for identifying cattle, horses, trees, clothes, and as boundary marks, are referred to in the Lex Salica, the Edictum Rotharis, and the The Customs of Old England
In my judgment this approach was wrong in law even if the dictum in Morris had been correct.
Leading corporates the world over, no longer go by the old dictum that held sway at one time: ‘People are dispensable.’
But as a RULE OF THUMB, the dictum is perfectly unexceptionable and modestly useful. Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
Quicquid ubique bene dictum facio meum, et illud nunc meis ad compendium, nunc ad fidem et auctoritatem alienis exprimo verbis, omnes auctores meos clientes esse arbitror, &c. Sarisburiensis ad Polycrat. prol. Anatomy of Melancholy
This programme completely ignores Keynes'dictum that states must face crises with counter - measures to support demand.
Sed satis de ea parte dictum uidetur, si corpus quod Christus excepit ex The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
N.B.B. civi Florentino magistro intagli faciendo duas portas de bronzo duabus novis sacristiis cathedralis ecclesie florentine pro pretio in totum flor. 1900 pro eo tempore et cum illis pactis et storiis et modis pro ut eis videbitur fore utilius et honorabilius pro dicta opera et quidquid fecerint circa predictum intelligatur et sit ac si factum foret per totum eorum officium. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
Palatium suum duo millaria tenet in ambitu; cuius pauimentum semper vnum laterem habet aureum, alium argenteum: Iuxta ambitum istius palatij est vnus monticulus artificialis de auro et argento, super quo stant Monasteria, et campanilia, et alia delectabilia pro solatio illius popularis; Et dictum fuit mihi, quòd quatuor tales homines sunt in regno illo. The Journal of Friar Odoric
Impressed by Scotus 'dictum, ˜Deus nullius est debitor™ Medieval Theories of Practical Reason
This abuse of language mirrors the abuse which we make our existence: we have denatured it in removing from it any trace of the sacred, in our blind observance of the dictums of project and work.
The authors have taken the ancient dictum to heart: ‘If you can't explain it, describe the hell out of it.’
Yet feminism is regarded by all parties as a philosophy based on Panglossian fortune-cookie dictums.
Asperum cultum et vitiosum caput, negligentiorem barbam, indictum argento odium, cubile humi positum, et quicquid ad laudem perversa via sequitur evita. Anatomy of Melancholy
Then Krugman's famous dictum that central banks should commit to be credibly irresponsible is somewhat self-contradictory. Transcript: Shirakawa on Japan's Economy
‘Where there is smoke there is fire’, says the old dictum.
Hunc ex deo prolatum didicimus et prolatione generatum et idcirco filium dei et deum dictum ex unitate substantiæ, nam et deus spiritus (that is, the antemundane Logos is the History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence, but not both.
Et ego vero predictus Johannes Mayowe et heredes mei mesuagium predictum cum omnibus et singulis terris Toftis Croftis, pratis, pascuis et pasturis supradictis ac omnibus suis pertinenciis prefatis Roberto Throckmerton, Shakespeare's Family
From an _obiter dictum_ of one of the judges in the case it would appear that the order of amotion from the bench of this Province was finally set aside on technical grounds, owing to the appellant's not having been heard in Canada. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion
Hidden in this dictum is the danger of unlimited government, of the exercise of power untrammelled by the need for openness, transparency and accountability.
The truth of the dictum has been demonstrated in history, both ancient and recent, time and again.
Ergo ut praelocuti sumus, quomodo unumquodque dictum sit, consideremus ne forte per ignorantiam in barathrum decidamus erroris. Pneumatologia
Byron wrote that "nought so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion;" but this dictum is hardly confirmed in the case of Mr. Bence Jones's assailants, who number among them a minister of religion, as well as the irrepressible grogshop-keeper. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
As the old McLuhanesque dictum goes the medium is the message.
'Dictum facete et contumeliose in Metellos antiquum Naevii est, "Fato Metelli Romai fiunt consules," cui tunc Metellus consul (B.C. 206) iratus versu responderat ..., The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
He transformed the esoteric realm of quantum physics, and along the way discovered anti-matter by applying the dictum that mathematical beauty is a guide to truth.
Accedit, quòd præter omnem expectationem meam ab omnibus tuis ciuibus, quibus comaliqua consuetudo mihi contigit, tanta passìm humanitate acceptus essem, vt iam (sit hoc saluo pietate à me dictum) suauissimæ Anglorum amicitiæ fermè aboleuerint desiderium et Pannoniarum et Budæ meæ, quibus patriæ nomen debeo. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
Mostly he uses his surgeon's instinct to follow the dictum of the great American short story writer Raymond Carver: ‘Get in and get out fast.’
Equally important, the Dictum offered rebels deprived of their lands the opportunity of redeeming them, for sums calculated in proportion to their involvement in the rebellion.
The point I am making is that you followed the dictum that the end justifies the means. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
As a result, by the eve of World War II, no one seriously questioned the dictum of Gen George Marshall, Army chief of staff, that no democracy could endure a 10-year war.
This dictum applies particularly to price discrimination and vertical restraints.
This comprehensive compendium of commandments gives you 75 easy-to-follow basic to advanced dictums that have passed the Team FLEX test for accuracy and efficiency.
De familia ergo comitis domini nostri plurimi tam milites qu鄊 clerici, quorum primus et pr鎐ipuus ego eram, cum licentia, et domini nostri comitis beneuolentia, in dictum iter nos omnes accinximus: et Alemanniam petentes, equites triginta numero et ampli鵶 domino Maguntino coniuncti sumus. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
A major component of these magazines' mission was to challenge the prevailing cultural dictums against pleasure of and for the body, including nudity, imagination, and sexuality.
The old dictum of ‘show, don't tell’ comes to mind here.
In such instances, it is referred to as obiter dictum (dictum for short, dicta being the plural) - meaning it is not binding as precedent, as it is a merely personal view of the justice. Lone Star Times
He said it as though it was a little dictum that he lived by, and indeed for the last half-hour he had. Bomber
Today, more than ever, Willie Sutton's dictum is right on. Job Creation Idea No. 9: Encourage Banks To Lend -- Or Else
So they said basically, look we are not going to invalidate it just because the journal was not in sufficient detail. now then in dictum they say the question was non-justiciable, but you could always say that is just dictum. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
He followed the famous American dictum, 'Don't get mad, get even'.
As a women's movement pioneer, Susan B. Anthony fought against the dictums of those who would vilipend women by treating them as second-class citizens.
But as the decisions in Milligan, Hamdan and Rasul demonstrate, to the extent the Chase dictum is correct at all, it does not reflect a principle that would invariably restrict Congress's authority to restrict the President's power to deal with the enemy. continue reading ... Balkinization
I also subscribe to the dictum that an accomplished cook/chef/cuisinier should be able to prepare a GREAT dish with no more than FIVE ingredients exclusive of salt, pepper, flour dusting, sauteeing medium, splash of this or that. The Call of the Meat Eater - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
It was yet another example of the old dictum that racing can be a very cruel sport.
They quote a dictum of Lord Keynes: ‘In the long run we are all dead.’

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