dictate: Bedeutung und Definitionen

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.