DICTATE
DICTATE, verb transitive [Latin, to speak.]1. To tell with authority; to deliver, as an order, command, or direction; as, what God has dictated, it is our duty to believe.2. To ...
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DICTATED
DICTATED, participle passive Delivered with authority; ordered; directed; suggested.
DICTATING
DICTATING, participle present tense Uttering or delivering with authority; instructing what to say or write; ordering; suggesting to the mind.
DICTATION
DICTATION, noun The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing.It affords security against the dictation of laws.
DICTATOR
DICTATOR, noun [Latin]1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims for the direction of others.2. One invested with absolute authority. In ancient Rome, a magistrate...
DICTATORIAL
DICTATORIAL, adjective1. Pertaining to a dictator; absolute; unlimited; uncontrollable.2. Imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, the officer assumed a dictatorial tone.
DICTATORSHIP
DICTATORSHIP, noun1. The office of a dictator; the term of a dictators office.2. Authority; imperiousness; dogmatism.
DICTATORY
DICTATORY, adjective Overbearing; dogmatical.
DICTATURE
DICTATURE, noun1. The office of a dictator; dictatorship.2. Absolute authority; the power that dictates.
DICTION
DICTION, noun [Latin, to speak.] Expression of ideas by words; style; manner of expression.
DICTIONARY
DICTIONARY, noun [Latin, a word, or a speaking.] A book containing the words of a language arranged in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon.
DID
DID, pret of do, contracted from doed. I did thou didst, he did; we did you or ye did they didHave ye not read what David did when he was hungry? Matthew 12:3.The proper signifi...
DIDACTIC
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, adjective [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or e...
DIDACTICAL
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL adjective [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or es...
DIDACTICALLY
DIDACTICALLY, adverb In a didactic manner; in a form to teach.
DIDAPPER
DIDAPPER, noun [from dip.] A bird that dives into the water, a species of Colymbus.
DIDASCALIC
DIDASCALIC, adjective [Gr., to teach.] Didactic; preceptive; giving precepts. [Little used.]
DIDDER
DIDDER, verb intransitive To totter, as a child in walking.
DIDDLE
DIDDLE, verb intransitive To totter, as a child in walking.
DIDECAHEDRAL
DIDECAHEDRAL, adjective [di and decahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.
DIDODECAHEDRAL
DIDODECAHEDRAL, adjective [di and dodecahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of a dodecahedral prism with hexahedral summits.
DIDRACHMA
DIDRACHMA, noun [Gr.] A piece of money, the fourth of an ounce of silver.
DIDUCTION
DIDUCTION, noun [Latin, to draw.] Separation by withdrawing one part from the other.
DIDYNAM
DIDYNAM, noun [Gr., power.] In botany, a plant of four stamens, disposed in two pairs, one being shorter than the other.
DIDYNAMIAN
DIDYNAMIAN, adjective Containing four stamens, disposed in pairs, one shorter than the other.
DIE
DIE, verb intransitive [See Day.]1. To be deprived of respiration, of the circulation of blood, and other bodily functions, and rendered incapable of resuscitation, as animals, ...
DIECIAN
DIECIAN, noun [Gr., two; house.] In botany, one of a class of plants, whose male and female flowers are on different plants of the same species.