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dixit

[ dik-sit ]

/ ˈdɪk sɪt /

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Definition of dixit

noun

an utterance.

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Origin of dixit

1620–30; <Latin: he has said

Words nearby dixit

Dixiecrat, Dixiecrat Party, Dixie Cup, Dixieland, Dixielander, dixit, Dixon, dixy, DIY, Diyarbakir, DIYer

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How to use dixit in a sentence

It should have been—so we were to believe on his ipse dixit—contemporaneous with the Fall.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies
A man who says now what he denied six years ago cannot expect to be believed on his ipse dixit.
Handbook of Home Rule (1887)|W. E. Gladstone et al.
Quo facto, liberum qusit rei iudicium a se ei relinqui dixit.
Beowulf|R. W. Chambers
Quo sono recreatus Wermundus, filii ferrum audire se dixit, rogatque, cui potissimum parti ictum inflixerit.
Beowulf|R. W. Chambers

Or why should there be any ipse dixit in our poetry, any more than there is in our philosophy?
Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18)|John Dryden