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
The doctrine of direct creation can merely be asserted, it cannot be argued; the statement once made, there is nothing more to be said; it is an ipse dixit pure and simple.
From Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution by Morris, Charles
A likely thing that I would show my papers 141 on the ipse dixit of an unknown fellow in a hedge alehouse!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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