dicta

From here on, he was a philosopher, a sage, and his interviews were stuffed full of dicta, parables and eternal paradoxes.

Although such concerns only appear as dicta in Baby Girl, there is no question that they are present.

Mr. Patteson always, in the most careful manner, paid respect both to the chief's person and his dicta.

The Sorbonne was prevailed upon to condemn several of Erasmus's dicta as heretical in 1526.