All 6 Uses of
dictate
in
War and Peace
- "Second line…. have you written it?" he continued dictating to the clerk.†
Chpt 2 *
- Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy's picket line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived at Kutuzov's.†
Chpt 3
- After breakfast Napoleon in de Beausset's presence dictated his order of the day to the army.†
Chpt 10
- "Short and energetic!" he remarked when he had read over the proclamation which he had dictated straight off without corrections.†
Chpt 10
- After giving these and other commands he returned to his tent, and the dispositions for the battle were written down from his dictation.†
Chpt 10 *
- While Kutuzov was talking to Raevski and dictating the order of the day, Wolzogen returned from Barclay and said that General Barclay wished to have written confirmation of the order the field marshal had given.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders
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(dictate as in: dictate a letter) say out loud for the purpose of recording