All 3 Uses
dictate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
(Edited)
- Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
p. 157.1dictate = issue commands regarding
- These feelings dictated my answer to my father.
p. 157.9 *dictated = determined or controlled
- But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
p. 192.4 *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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)