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dictate Verb [-tating, -tated] 1. to say (words) aloud for another person to transcribe 2. to seek to impose one's will on others Noun 1. an authoritative command 2. a guiding principle: the dictates of reason [Latin dictare to say repeatedly]
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dictate noun 2. command, order, decree, word, demand, direction, requirement, bidding, mandate, injunction, statute, fiat, ultimatum, ordinance, edict, behest Translationsn [ˈdɪkteɪt] → dictado dictate to vt fus [+ person] → dar órdenes a; n [ˈdɪkteɪt] vt → dicter I won't be dictated to → je n'ai d'ordres à recevoir de personne n → injonction f n → Diktat nt; (principle); I won't be dictated to → non ricevo ordini |
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| Finally, those sentiments dictate the lines--grateful, sympathetic, paternal lines--which appear in this place. Now to say that the honour I here mean, and which was, I thought, all the honour I could be supposed to mean, will uphold, much less dictate an untruth, is to assert an absurdity too shocking to be conceived. Jennings, those were the first words that met my eye, exactly at the time when I myself was setting the secret Dictate at defiance |
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