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ukase
Part of Speech: noun
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- That very morning Dunshie's company commander received the following ukase from headquarters:- Officers commanding Companies will render to the Orderly Room without fail, by 9 A. M. to- morrow, the name of one man qualified to act as chiropodist to the Company. - "The First Hundred Thousand", Ian Hay.
- He is said to have formed his final decision during his winter stay at Livadia in the Crimea, owing to the personal intervention of Kuropatkin, and that too in face of a protest from the Finnish Minister, Procope, against the suspension by imperial ukase of a fundamental law of the Grand Duchy. - "The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)", John Holland Rose.
- This ukase, however, can scarcely be obeyed while the whole party are inmates of Mr. Aird's residence, who " lets off" the upper part of his house as furnished apartments, which the Coes have now inhabited as lodgers for some weeks. - "Bred in the Bone", James Payn.