dic-, dict- +

Lacking, or showing lack of, judgment or discretion; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet.

In an injudicious manner or without good judgment; unwisely.

1. An authoritative prohibition; an act of forbidding peremptorily.
2. In the Roman Catholic Curch, an authoritative sentence debarring a particular place or person (especially, the former) from ecclesiastical functions and privileges.
3. To declare authoritatively against the doing of (an action) or the use of (a thing); to forbid, prohibit; to debar or preclude by or as by a command.
4. To restrain (a person) by authority from the doing or use of something; to forbid to do something; to debar or preclude from something.

1. The action of forbidding by or as by authority; authoritative or peremptory prohibition.
2. The interruption of supply operations by aerial bombing.

1. That which is forbidden usually in a formal or authoritative manner.
2. Pertaining to, or noting, an interdiction or prohibition.

Of or relating to the iris of the eye.

1. Administration of justice; exercise of judicial authority, or of the functions of a judge or legal tribunal; power of declaring and administering law or justice; legal authority or power.
2. The extent or range of judicial or administrative power; the territory over which such power extends.

Having jurisdiction or the extent or range of judicial, law enforcement, or other authority.

1. To address with maledictions or curses.
2. To utter a curse against someone or something.

Spoken of in an evil manner, accursed.

1. The utterance of a curse; the condition of being under a ban or curse.
2. Reviling, slander; the condition of being reviled or slandered.
3. Slander or evil talk about someone.

Of the nature of, or resembling a malediction.

Wonderful to relate.

Used to introduce the announcement of something the speaker, genuinely or ironically, considers to be amazing.

Another version is "Believe it or not." This statement by Vergil is used when anyone wishes to express astonishment while recounting an event of overwhelming significance, accomplishment, or irony. A companion statement is mirabile visu.

Nothing has been said that has not been said before.

How difficult it is to be original.

Nothing is ever said that has not been said before.

From Publius Terentius Afer (c. 185 - 159 B.C.). Terence was the son of a Libyan slave and was born at Carthage. Cicero and Horace admired him for the urbanity and polish of his plays; Caesar praised his love of "pure speech".