edict
EE-diktnounMeaning an official order from someone in authority
Memory hook E-DICT: an order spoken OUT. The royal herald unrolls a scroll and reads the queen’s new order aloud: every Friday is now pie day! That official order is an edict.
The queen’s edict declared every Friday a holiday.
In context The principal’s new edict, posted on every classroom door, banned phones from the cafeteria starting Monday, and no one could argue with it.
Similar decree, order, command, proclamation
From Latin edictum, “a proclamation,” from edicere, “to declare”: e (out) + dicere (to say).