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Definition of the day : « dictate »

  • noun command; rule
  • verb command; give instructions
  • verb read out for the record
Example sentences :
  • And I cannot tell what turn my mind had taken to dictate so oddly to my pen.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • The cot was placed on the floor, and he continued to dictate from it.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • I do not presume to dictate to you your friendships or your dislikes.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • I've got such an awful lot of stuff that I want to dictate it right off the bat.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • The head must dictate and govern my actions, all else submitting.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 » by Various
  • It seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed and to dictate to the unborn.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • But when the teacher dictates to you, does he not dictate letters?
  • Extract from : « Euthydemus » by Plato
  • But scant though his wisdom might be, it was yet enough to dictate prudence.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Is your master not the person to dictate the answer to these queries?
  • Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
  • I'll give you my oath, as solemnly as you can dictate it to me, not to conceal one word.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever