DICTATE

dictate

Noun

  1. An order or command.
    I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

Verb

  1. To order, command, control.
  2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
    She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
    The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.


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