Definitions for dictate

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dictate dic·tate

Spelling: [verb dik-teyt, dik-teyt; noun Dictate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in dictate (acdeitt).

Definitions for dictate

noun

1. an authoritative order or command.
2. a guiding or governing principle, requirement, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record:
2. to prescribe or lay down authoritatively or peremptorily; command unconditionally:

verb (used without object)

1. to say or read aloud something to be written down by a person or recorded by a machine.
2. to give orders.

Origin of dictate

1585-95; Latin dictātus, past participle of dictāre to say repeatedly, prescribe, order, frequentative of dīcere to say

Examples for dictate

And I cannot tell what turn my mind had taken to dictate so oddly to my pen.

The head must dictate and govern my actions, all else submitting.

And these algorithms can dictate behavior and then punish players who dismiss them.

The cot was placed on the floor, and he continued to dictate from it.

Because the federal government really should dictate all that, right?

How could I forget his dictate to always be proud to be a Jew, even in circumstances when it might not seem to ones advantage?

The news possesses “the power to dictate what our idea of ‘other people’ will be like.”

I've got such an awful lot of stuff that I want to dictate it right off the bat.

I do not presume to dictate to you your friendships or your dislikes.

Because of rising gas prices, economics will dictate growing food closer to the consumer year round.