religious edict's Usage Examples:

The council issued a fatwa (religious edict) denouncing and prohibiting honour killings and said that honour killings.

he died, Rabbani was trying to persuade Islamic scholars to issue a religious edict banning suicide bombings.

The council issued a fatwa (religious edict) denouncing and prohibiting honour killings and said that honour killings were "un-Islamic".

This contractually binding deal allows the state to respect religious edicts without wastefully destroying massive quantities of food.

The Aga Khan, the 49th Imam of the Ismailis, was invited to issue a religious edict for and on behalf of the Ismailis, which he did by a letter explicitly.

"El-Rufai"s religious edict is draconian, says Pastor Onochie".

events of Deep Space Nine, Bajoran society was socially stratified; by religious edict, a person"s place in society was determined by their caste (or d"jara).

2009 Iranian election protests, rumours arose that he had issued a religious edict proclaiming that Mr.

On 9 July 1788 a religious edict was issued forbidding Evangelical ministers from teaching anything.

arrested partly on account of a pasquinade he had written concerning a religious edict passed by Prussia the year before, owing to the religious reaction.

Islamic leaders issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning any attacks by extremists or terrorists on the United States.

He signed the Darul Uloom Deoband"s first ever religious edict against terrorism in 2008.

second visit he was the prime mover in the promulgation of the Bavarian religious edict of 1522, which practically established the senate of the University.

Synonyms:

sacred,

Antonyms:

profane, earthly,