dict (dikt)

[ME. dicte; What, the old dict was true after all? C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xxxvi. dicta, n. Plural of dictum . dicta ment (dik-tā'men), n. [ dicta men , dictare , prescribe, dictate: see dictate .] A dictate; a precept; an injunction. I must tell you (not out of mine own dictamen , but the author's) a good play is like a skein of silk; which, if you take by the right end, you may wind off at pleasure. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, Ind.