dixit

American  

[dik-sit] / ˈdɪk sɪt /

noun

1. an utterance.

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Etymology

Origin of dixit

1620–30; < Latin: he has said

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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

There is great ignorance on this subject, and what is known is generally the ipse dixit of somebody.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

He did not give me any proof, but considering his position, I could not do otherwise than take his ipse dixit for it.

From The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

But, until this organ is established, we have good right to doubt the ipse dixit of self-appointed oracles.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars