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noun

Dictum n. (pl. L. dicta, E. dictums)

An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm. "A class of critical dicta everywhere current."

(Law)

(a)

A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

(b)

(French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.

(c)

An arbitrament or award.

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... Your Excellency's advisers, were we to continue silent it might with some show of reason be inferred that we were satisfied with the answer of the Government, and would accept their dictum as representing the true position of the matter ...

— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

... complaint that all topicks are preoccupied is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness.' See post, under Aug. 29, 1783. Dr. Warton (Essay on Pope, i. 88) says that 'St. Jerome relates that Donatus, explaining that passage in Terence, Nihil est dictum quod non sit dictum prius, railed at the ancients for taking from him his best thoughts. Pereant ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... times its own excuse for being, as in an explanation of certain elegiac poems as "the sensation of misery in the contemplation of the silliness of the relations of banality to craziness;" but there are many sentences which go deep below the surface—none better remembered, perhaps, than the dictum, "The French Revolution, Fichte's Doctrine of Science, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... those who were deprived, or outcast, or bereft. But Theodore was too young and too energetic to be contented with the life of a philanthropist, no matter how noble and necessary its objects might be. He had already accepted Emerson's dictum: ...

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... would have given much to be back in his lonely squalid lodgings now. Too late did he realise how wise had been the dictum which had warned him against making or renewing friendships ...

— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy

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