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Webster dictionary was developed by Noah Webster in the beginning of 19th century. On this website, you can find definition for ukase from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Define ukase using one of the most comprehensive free online dictionaries on the web.
ukase
1. In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.
Examples of usage:
That very morning Dunshie's company commander received the following ukase from headquarters:- Officers commanding Companies will render to the Orderly Room without fail, by 9 A. M. to- morrow, the name of one man qualified to act as chiropodist to the Company. - "The First Hundred Thousand", Ian Hay.
He is said to have formed his final decision during his winter stay at Livadia in the Crimea, owing to the personal intervention of Kuropatkin, and that too in face of a protest from the Finnish Minister, Procope, against the suspension by imperial ukase of a fundamental law of the Grand Duchy. - "The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)", John Holland Rose.
This ukase, however, can scarcely be obeyed while the whole party are inmates of Mr. Aird's residence, who " lets off" the upper part of his house as furnished apartments, which the Coes have now inhabited as lodgers for some weeks. - "Bred in the Bone", James Payn.
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