Co je dictate? Co je dictate? To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another: dictate a letter. To prescribe with authority; impose: dictated the rules of the game. To control or command: "Foreign leaders were . . . dictated by their own circumstances, bound by the universal imperatives of politics” ( Doris Kearns Goodwin). To say or read aloud material to be recorded or written by another: dictated for an hour before leaving for the day. To issue orders or commands.A directive; a command.A guiding principle: followed the dictates of my conscience.