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Webster 1913 Edition
Dictation
Dic-ta′tion
,Noun.
[L.
dictatio
.] 1.
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
It affords security against the
dictation
of laws. Paley.
2.
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance;
as, his habit, even with friends, was that of
. dictation
Webster 1828 Edition
Dictation
DICTATION
,Noun.
It affords security against the dictation of laws.
Definition 2024
dictation
dictation
English
Noun
dictation (countable and uncountable, plural dictations)
- (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
- Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
- (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
- 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
- (countable) The act of ordering or commanding
- 1852: Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
- (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
- His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Derived terms
- musical dictation
Translations
the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
the act of ordering or commanding
orders given in an overbearing manner
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