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
Caput e foramine extraxit, aliquamdiu meditatus est, deinde caput iterum immisit et dixit: 'Quaeso bona venia, die mihi: ubi est Lepus?'
From Time Magazine Archive
Caput ergo iterum in foramen inseruit et dixit: 'Heus, Lepus, esne tu?'
From Time Magazine Archive
He professes to write the history only of his own times; and, consequently, his story rests upon his own credit, unsupported by vouchers: his ipse dixit is the whole proof.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)
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