Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog. No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint .
An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism, but it can be under any official authority. Synonyms include dictum and pronouncement. Edict derives from the Latin edictum. In the late 15th century the spelling was edycte and known as meaning a proclamation having the force of law.
Canon, originally referring to an edict of the Church (a meaning that it still retains), is used of any principle, law, or critical standard that is officially approved, particularly in aesthetics and scholarship: canons of literary criticism.