FIAT Synonyms

• a formal or authoritative proclamation

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

• (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

• a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

• established customary state (especially of society)

• logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

• a condition of regular or proper arrangement

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• a body of rules followed by an assembly

• a group of person living under a religious rule

• (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

• a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

• (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

• the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

• give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

• make a request for something

• issue commands or orders for

• bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

• bring order to or into

• place in a certain order

• appoint to a clerical posts

• arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

• assign a rank or rating to

• a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• the act of rewriting something

• something that has been written again

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• a military unit or region under the control of a single officer

• the power or authority to command

• availability for use

• a position of highest authority

• great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

• (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

• be in command of

• make someone do something

• demand as one's due

• look down on

• exercise authoritative control or power over

• an authoritative declaration

• an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding

• a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity

• showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

• a document giving an official instruction or command

• a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

• the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

• assign under a mandate

• make mandatory

• assign authority to

• a formal public statement

• the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice

• an authoritative declaration

• the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

• exercising power or authority

• an edict of the Russian tsar