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To have determined or dictated
“All the more reason to allow market forces, rather than misguided and punitive regulation, to dictate the choices available to consumers.”
To have made a law
“It is, of course, impossible to dictate a law that pictures must of necessity be always warm and yellowish in front, and blue or coldish at the back.”
Past tense for to give an authoritative or decisive command or order
“The chief executive must firmly dictate that inferior products will not be allowed to leave the plant.”
Past tense for to behave in a domineering fashion over
“Again and again, he would dictate his followers' personal lives as well as their political lives.”
Past tense for to say or recite something aloud
“He used to dictate his thoughts to his amanuenses, or scribes, who attended him during his walks.”
Past tense for to overpower by weight
Past tense for to instruct or order (someone) to do something
Past tense for to bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure
Past tense for to assert something as a position in an argument
Past tense for to write, especially a literary or artistic work
Having been imposed or established by authority
Officially or legally authorized
Composed or authored in writing
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