Definitions for dictates

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dictates dic·tate

Spelling: [verb dik-teyt, dik-teyt; noun Dictates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in dictates (acdeistt).

Definitions for dictates

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 dictates

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

Examples for dictates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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