dixit
[ dik-sit ]
noun
an utterance.
Origin of dixit
11620–30; <Latin: he has said
Words Nearby dixit
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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 DaviesA 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. ChambersQuo sono recreatus Wermundus, filii ferrum audire se dixit, rogatque, cui potissimum parti ictum inflixerit.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersOr 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
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