dixit

[ dik-sit ]

noun

1. an utterance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dixit¹

1620–30; < Latin: he has said

Example Sentences

It should have been—so we were to believe on his ipse dixit—contemporaneous with the Fall.

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A man who says now what he denied six years ago cannot expect to be believed on his ipse dixit.

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Quo facto, liberum qusit rei iudicium a se ei relinqui dixit.

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Quo sono recreatus Wermundus, filii ferrum audire se dixit, rogatque, cui potissimum parti ictum inflixerit.

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Or why should there be any ipse dixit in our poetry, any more than there is in our philosophy?

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