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Authority/Authorize.

Ban.

Blacklist:
Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"

Censor:
Stands to the censor's scythe - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"

What later folly or design shall never censor - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"

Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"

Charter.

Contract.

Covenant:
The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

The covenant of timelessness with time - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

Made a sable covenant with grief - Thomas Hood "The Two Peacocks of Bedfont"

The glass doors and their covenant - David Hornibrook "Pony"

A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"

Decree.

Doctrine.

Dystopia:
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Edict.

Fiat:
Whose simplest fiat is the birth of worlds - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

The fiat summoning day - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

Whose fiat lulls the storm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Govern.

Injunction:
An injunction from a distant government - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"

This injunction repeat, that they may clearly understand it - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

One injunction I must first enforce - John Stockdale Hardy "Palace of Fantasy Canto I"

Inquisition:
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Chosen by an inquisitor of structures - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

The inquisition yet would serve the law - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Interrogate.

Judge/Judgment.

Judicial:
The black judicial formula devised by bloody thrones - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Justice.

Law.

Legal/Illegal.

Legitimate/Illegitimate.

License.

Mandate.

Mandatory:
Mandatory nostalgia for the northern star - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Permit.

Precedent: See Precede.

Principle.

Restrict.

Statute:
Under the masonry of state and statute - Seamus Heaney "The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream"

The statute of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Wandering Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Taboo:
I have decreed them all taboo - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"

Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Waiver:
Sign a waiver for the possibility of death - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"

Waived upon a concordat's breach - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]


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