dixit

American  

[dik-sit] / ˈdɪk sɪt /

noun

1. an utterance.

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Etymology

Origin of dixit

1620–30; < Latin: he has said

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Example Sentences

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dixit

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

Or why should there be any ipse dixit in our poetry, any more than there is in our philosophy?

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

The ends of words were modified in appearance by the loss of all stop-consonants and the change of final m to n, ἔδειξε, Latin dixit; ζυγόν, Latin iugum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

And still the bells pealed joyfully on, from the villages on the plains and hill-sides, from the rocky castled heights, from the depths of the forest— "Io! revixit, Sicuti dixit, Pius illæsus, Funere Jesus!"

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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