All 4 Uses of
dictate
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Occasionally, perhaps, the writing from your dictation; and possibly, sir,' said Nicholas, with a half-smile, 'the copying of your speech for some public journal, when you have made one of more than usual importance.'†
Chpt 16 *
- This last suggestion was so much in accordance with the timid girl's own feelings and wishes, that she readily promised implicit reliance on the excellent spinster's advice: without questioning, or indeed bestowing a moment's reflection upon, the motives that dictated it.†
Chpt 18
- The man obeyed these directions as if he quite comprehended the motive with which they were dictated, and left the room.†
Chpt 38 *
- Even now, although he knew that the observation of an anxious mother was much more likely to be correct in such a case than his own, and although she reminded him of many little circumstances which, taken together, were certainly susceptible of the construction she triumphantly put upon them, he was not quite convinced but that they arose from mere good-natured thoughtless gallantry, which would have dictated the same conduct towards any other girl who was young and pleasing.†
Chpt 55
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