All 7 Uses of
dictate
in
Mansfield Park
- As far as walking, talking, and contriving reached, she was thoroughly benevolent, and nobody knew better how to dictate liberality to others; but her love of money was equal to her love of directing, and she knew quite as well how to save her own as to spend that of her friends.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)dictate = instruct
- I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Chpt 9 (definition 2) *dictated = controlled
- I will parody them—
Blest Knight! whose dictatorial looks dispense
To Children affluence, to Rushworth sense.
Chpt 17 (definition 1) *dictatorial = commanding
- Sir Thomas was satisfied; too glad to be satisfied, perhaps, to urge the matter quite so far as his judgment might have dictated to others.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)dictated = instructed
- She had a letter from him herself, a few hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the newspaper in his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found her trembling with joy over this letter, and listening with a glowing, grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her uncle was most collectedly dictating in reply.
Chpt 24 (definition 3) *dictating = instructing what should be said
- If she would but have let us know she was going out but there is a something about Fanny, I have often observed it before—she likes to go her own way to work; she does not like to be dictated to; she takes her own independent walk whenever she can; she certainly has a little spirit of secrecy, and independence, and nonsense, about her, which I would advise her to get the better of.
Chpt 32 (definition 1)dictated = commanded
- The being left with her sister and nephew, and all the house under her care, had been an advantage entirely thrown away; she had been unable to direct or dictate, or even fancy herself useful.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)dictate = command
Definitions:
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(1) (dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders
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(2) (dictate as in: reason dictates) determine or control what will happen
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(3) (dictate as in: dictate a letter) say out loud for the purpose of recording