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Definition of Dictated
1. Adjective. Determined or decided upon as by an authority. "The time set for the launching"
Definition of Dictated
1. Verb. (past of dictate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dictated
1. dictate [v] - See also: dictate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dictated
Literary usage of Dictated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"I cannot be dictated to by a watch." " I am afraid you are very tired, Fanny,"
said Edmund, observing her; " why would not you speak sooner? ..."
2. The Jews in the Eastern War Zone by American Jewish Committee (1916)
"It is a temporary measure dictated by military necessity. It does not remove any
of the disabilities to which the Jews in Russia are legally subject. ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"t two circumstances; first, that he dictated nearly the whole of his Memoirs to
a young amanuensis ; secondly, that the distinguished academical writer to ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... we must supply the silence of antiquity by those legends which avarice or
superstition long afterward dictated to the monks in the lazy ..."
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