{"id":13885,"date":"2018-01-21T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2018-01-21T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:15:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/21\/word-of-the-day-306\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ukase<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <b>ukase<\/b>, or <b>ukaz<\/b> (<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/ju\u02d0\/: 'u' in 'cute'\">ju\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'k' in 'kind'\">k<\/span><span title=\"\/e\u026a\/: 'a' in 'face'\">e\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'s' in 'sigh'\">s<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>;<sup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOED_staff1989_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukase#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOED_staff1989-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> <i><a title=\"Russian language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_language\">Russian<\/a>: <span lang=\"ru\" xml:lang=\"ru\">\u0443\u043a\u0430\u0437<\/span><\/i> <span class=\"IPA\" title=\"Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/Russian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/Russian\">[\u028a\u02c8kas]<\/a><\/span>, formally &#8220;imposition&#8221;), in <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Imperial Russia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Russia\">Imperial Russia<\/a>, was a proclamation of the <a title=\"Tsar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsar\">tsar<\/a>, government,<sup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> or a religious leader (<a title=\"Patriarch\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriarch\">patriarch<\/a>) that had the force of law. &#8220;<a title=\"Edict\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edict\">Edict<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title=\"Decree\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decree\">decree<\/a>&#8221; are adequate translations using the terminology and concepts of <a title=\"Roman law\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_law\">Roman law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the Russian term, the word <i>ukase<\/i> has entered the English language with the meaning of &#8220;any proclamation or decree; an order or regulation of a final or arbitrary nature&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOED_staff1989_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/trumps-first-year-a-damage-assessment\/2018\/01\/19\/0b410f3c-fa66-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?undefined=&amp;utm_term=.b9ec0d34da08&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Trump\u2019s first year: A damage assessment<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Tom Nichols, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Trump] is everything, in fact, except our chief magistrate and the head of the executive branch of our government. Rather than feeling bound by the Constitution \u201cto take care that the laws are faithfully executed,\u201d Trump sits atop a structure of laws and norms he attacks daily. Courts? How dare they impede his executive ukazes. The Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA? Disasters. All part of the \u201cdeep state.\u201d And the First Amendment? An annoyance that needs to be cleared up by <a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2018\/01\/10\/president-trump-calls-libel-laws-a-sham-and-a-disgrace-pledges-review\/?utm_term=.38258a19011a\" shape=\"rect\">rewriting libel laws<\/a> to protect those in power from a free press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A clever little usage, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukase: A ukase, or ukaz (\/ju\u02d0\u02c8ke\u026as\/;[1] Russian: \u0443\u043a\u0430\u0437 [\u028a\u02c8kas], formally &#8220;imposition&#8221;), in Imperial Russia, was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law. &#8220;Edict&#8221; and &#8220;decree&#8221; are adequate translations using the terminology and concepts of Roman law. From the Russian term, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/21\/word-of-the-day-306\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13886,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions\/13886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}