imperial decree

1. 1.

   a decree issued by a sovereign ruler

   Broaderdecree

   Narrowerukasepragmatic sanction

Questions about imperial decree

What does imperial decree mean?

imperial decree means "a decree issued by a sovereign ruler".

Is imperial decree a common word?

imperial decree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.