dixit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dixit
1620–30; < Latin: he has said
Example Sentences
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Today’s decision reveals California’s considerable wingspan: That case’s ipse dixit now apparently governs all APA challenges to grant-funding determinations that the government asks us to address in the context of an emergency stay application.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit!"
From Time Magazine Archive
With an undue sense of the importance of the vice-royalty, the ipse dixit of "the little king" dissolved Parliament on more than one occasion.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
His was above all a mind not prone to accept scientific teaching on the ipse dixit of a professor.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
"Hæc quum dixisset, insufflavit et dixit eis, accipite spiritum sanctum"—Having spoken these words, he breathed on them, and said: Receive ye the holy breath—the holy spirit.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
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