English Explanatory Dictionary

Law of the Medes and Persians

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rule, law or custom which is unchangeable.

Word forms

Law of the Medes and Persians law of the Medes and the Persians

Etymology

From the King James Bible, Daniel Chapter 6, verse 8: :: "Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."

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