Usage examples:

• Had he tamely submitted to Napoleon's ukase and placed his fleet and his vast colonial empire at the service of France, it is doubtful whether even the high- souled Canning would not have stooped to surrender in face of odds so overwhelming. John Holland Rose in "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)".

• You knew she has been awfully nice to us in spite of the oil stove ukase Lucy Maud Montgomery in "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906".