All 3 Uses of
dictate
in
The Age of Innocence
- He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste.†
Chpt 2 *
- The knowing people said it was Beaufort himself who trained the servants, taught the chef new dishes, told the gardeners what hot-house flowers to grow for the dinner-table and the drawing-rooms, selected the guests, brewed the after-dinner punch and dictated the little notes his wife wrote to her friends.†
Chpt 3
- If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders