DPage 158
- English Word Dictate Definition To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.
- English Word Dictate Definition To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).
- English Word Dictate Definition To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
- English Word Dictate Definition A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.
- English Word Dictated Definition of Dictate
- English Word Dictating Definition of Dictate
- English Word Dictation Definition The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
- English Word Dictation Definition The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
- English Word Dictator Definition One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
- English Word Dictator Definition One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
- English Word Dictatorial Definition Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
- English Word Dictatorial Definition Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.
- English Word Dictatorian Definition Dictatorial.
- English Word Dictatorship Definition The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
- English Word Dictatory Definition Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.
- English Word Dictatress Definition A woman who dictates or commands.
- English Word Dictatrix Definition A dictatress.
- English Word Dictature Definition Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
- English Word Diction Definition Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.
- English Word Dictionalrian Definition A lexicographer.
- English Word Dictionaries Definition of Dictionary
- English Word Dictionary Definition A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
- English Word Dictionary Definition Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.
- English Word Dictum Definition An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
- English Word Dictum Definition A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- English Word Dictum Definition The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- English Word Dictum Definition An arbitrament or award.
- English Word Dictums Definition of Dictum
- English Word Dictyogen Definition A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.
- English Word Dicyanide Definition A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.