Both Uses of
dictate
in
Persuasion
- "Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.†
Chpt 2 *
- She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted into.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders