| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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| dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
| (noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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| dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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| (noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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