Dictum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 89 anagrams from letters in dictum (cdimtu).
1660-70; Latin: something said, a saying, command, word, noun use of neuter past participle of dīcere to say, speak; cf. index
Somehow I haven't been able to locate that dictum in the Quran, ahadith or sunan, but it must be there somewhere.
And so, rather than walking away from his fans, Costello should take heed of the dictum: “Where words fail, music speaks.”
In politics, the dictum ‘follow the money’ usually leads to uncomfortable truths.
The dictum is that there is no such thing as falsehood; a man must either say what is true or say nothing.
Every one conceded that Smith's dictum would decide the contest.
We doubt, too, the dictum that the earliest poets are uniformly the best.
Because Sanford is not the only politician to disprove Scott Fitzgerald's dictum.
This, however, is not accepted by all as the dictum of modern science.
If you are in a mixed company, cultivate the dictum of "give and take."
There was a finality about the dictum that reassured his allies.