Dictate

dik'tat, v. To deliver, state, or utter, for another to reduce to writing to communicate with authority to deliver to a subordinate, as a command; to prescribe, enjoin, urge. — v. To deliver commands.— A statement delivered with authority authoritative rule or principle order direction; impulse; admonition. [L. dictare, -tatum, freq. of dicere, to say.] — Dictation, Act of, etc. — Dicta'tor, -tSr, One who, etc.; one invested with absolute authority, esp. in times of distre . — Dicta to'rial, -rt-al, a. Pert, or suited to a dictator; absolute imperious overbearing. — Dicta to'rially, adv. — Dicta'torship, Office or term of office of, etc. — Dicta'tre , -trix, A female who dictates. — Dicta'ture, -ta'chur, n. Dictatorship.