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
Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Caput ergo iterum in foramen inseruit et dixit: 'Heus, Lepus, esne tu?'
From Time Magazine Archive
The coming generations will not give Macaulay up; but they will probably attach much less value than we have done to his ipse dixit.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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