dictate

dictate noun act, authoritative suggestion, behest, charge, command, commandment, commission, decree, demand, direction, edict, enactment, fiat, imperative, immerious direction, injunction, instruction, judgment, law, mandate, order, ordinance, ordination, precept, prescript, prescription, proclamation, regulation, requirement, rubric, rule, ruling, ultimatum

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dictate verb bid, charge, command, compel, decree, demand, direct, enjoin, exercise authority, give orders, immose an order, instruct, issue a command, issue an order, oblige, ordain, order, prescribe, require, require authoritaaively, rule

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See also: act, approve, assign, canon, charge, citation, coerce, command, compel, constitution, decree, detail, direct, direction, directive, dominate, edict, enact, enactment, enforce, enjoin, fiat, govern, holding, impose, insist, instruct, legislate, manage, mandamus, mandate, measure, monition, necessitate, order, oversee, pass, precept, prescribe, prescription, prevail, regulation, require, requirement, rubric, rule, statute, writ

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TO DICTATE. To pronounce word for word what is destined to be at the same time written by another. Merlin Rep. mot Suggestion, p. 5 00; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 410.