dictate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An order or command.

   “I must obey the dictates of my conscience.”

2. fiil To order, command, control.

   “Etiquette dictates that wedding invitations should be acknowledged in writing.”

3. fiil To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

   “She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.”

4. fiil To determine or decisively affect.

   “He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.”