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dictate
/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
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What does dictate mean?
noun
- An order or command.
verb
- To order, command, control.
- To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
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verb
- To determine or decisively affect.
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These things may be varied, as expediency may dictate, so only that they be allowed to infringe no principle of justice.
The intellectual or logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs—to dictate purposes to God.
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Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.
Are they not swayed in politics by their "bosses", and do not many of them act and vote as their bosses dictate?
A business man, for instance, can dictate his letters or instructions into it, and they can be copied out by his secretary.