Citations:fiat

Noun

1. an effectual decree
   • and behold, some baleful fiat as of Enchantment has gone forth.

     Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 1, Midas

   • The point I am concerned with is that, if you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong, then you are in this situation: is that difference due to God's fiat or is it not?

     Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian (1927)

   • Willis,

     His fiat laid the corner stone.

   • 2004 October 18, The New Yorker,

     The Republican domination of both houses of Congress has allowed him to do this almost by fiat, without domestic political resistance or accountability.

   • Allen G. Taylor, SQL For Dummies, Fifth Edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc.,

     The SQL:2003 specification does not try to arbitrate or establish by fiat what DOUBLE PRECISION means. The specification requires only that the precision of a DOUBLE PRECISION number be greater than the precision of a REAL number. This constraint, though rather weak, is perhaps the best possible in light of the great differences you encounter in hardware.

Verb

1. to issue a fiat
   • 1826 Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826 s.133 (Irish Statute Book)

     If any of the said grand juries hall at any time present for any of the said purposes a sum which shall appear to the court to be greater than is proper or reasonable for such purpose, then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the court or judge receiving such presentment, at the time of so receiving the same, to order that the same shall be reduced to such sum as he or they shall think proper, which shall be done accordingly; and the same shall then be fiated, and shall be deemed, taken, and proceeded on, in the same manner in all respects as if the same had been originally so presented.

   • 1986 S.I. No. 15/1986 - The Rules of the Superior Courts Order 30 (Irish Statute Book)

     The following shall be the side-bar orders of the Court:— [...] (10) To discharge receiver over lands sold by the Land Judge, or over lands comprised in a vesting order made or an agreement fiated by the Irish Land Commission (on production of a certificate of the Irish Land Commission that such vesting order has been made or such agreement fiated, and of the advance having been made in respect of such lands).