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Hitler dictated that...
Definition
issue commands or orders
- But the eat-sleep routine I had begun in the hospital, and kept up under Mother's dictatorial command, got the better of me.p. 289.1
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- Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation.p. 257.6
- She dictated letters to me, advising them both that we were on our way.p. 199.6
- I waited for Fate, the string puller, to dictate my movements.p. 247.3
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