Dictate

dik'tat, v. t. 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. i. To deliver commands.— n. A statement delivered with authority; authoritative rule or principle: order; direction; impulse; admonition. — Dicta'tion, n. — Dicta'tor, -ter. n. One who, etc.; one invested with absolute authority, esp. in times of distre . — Dictatorial, -rl-al, a. Pert, or suited to a dictator; absolute; imperious: overbearing. — Dicta to'rially, adv. — Dictatorship, n. Office or term of office of, etc. — Dicta'tre . -trix, u. A female who dictates. — Dicta'ture, -ta'chur, n. Dictatorship.