All 4 Uses of
dictate
in
Gulliver's Travels
- He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.†
Chpt 3
- Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court: and we often find by experience, that young men are too opinionated and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.†
Chpt 3
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.†
Chpt 4 *
- I freely confess, that all the little knowledge I have of any value, was acquired by the lectures I received from my master, and from hearing the discourses of him and his friends; to which I should be prouder to listen, than to dictate to the greatest and wisest assembly in Europe.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders