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| − | # {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} [[dictate|dictating]], the process of [[speak]]ing for someone else to [[write]] down the words | + | # {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} [[dictate|Dictating]], the process of [[speak]]ing for someone else to [[write]] down the words |
| | #: ''Since I learned shorthand, I can take '''dictation''' at eighty words a minute.'' | | #: ''Since I learned shorthand, I can take '''dictation''' at eighty words a minute.'' |
| − | # {{context|countable|lang=en}} an activity in [[school]] where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down | + | # {{context|countable|lang=en}} An activity in [[school]] where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down |
| | #: '''1908:''' Lucy Maud Montgomery, ''Anne of Green Gables'' - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today. | | #: '''1908:''' Lucy Maud Montgomery, ''Anne of Green Gables'' - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today. |
| − | # {{context|countable|lang=en}} the act of [[order]]ing or [[command]]ing | + | # {{context|countable|lang=en}} The act of [[order]]ing or [[command]]ing |
| | #: '''1852:''' Lysander Spooner, ''An Essay on the Trial by Jury'' - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any '''dictation''' from the court, either as to law or fact. | | #: '''1852:''' Lysander Spooner, ''An Essay on the Trial by Jury'' - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any '''dictation''' from the court, either as to law or fact. |
| − | # {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} orders given in an [[overbearing]] manner | + | # {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} Orders given in an [[overbearing]] manner |
| | #: ''His habit, even with friends, was that of '''dictation'''.'' | | #: ''His habit, even with friends, was that of '''dictation'''.'' |
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