(archaic) imperial edict; royal decree / (archaic, literally) holy orders; sacred instructions

a mission; fundamental principle; main objective

to refer generally; to imply nonspecifically; to make a blanket statement

a general reference; allusion; generalization

(zoology) a filarial roundworm of the species Wuchereria bancrofti

main idea, essentials

(literally) the magnetic needle of a compass / (figurative) a compass / (formal, figurative) a guide; touchstone; lodestar; benchmark

(botany) facing heaven pepper (a type of cone pepper within the species Capsicum annuum)

location of special significance to the communist revolution

(literally) when and only when / (mathematics, logic) if and only if