Dictation
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
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Dictation Quotations
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
William Graham Sumner
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
Richard Russo
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
Tommy Shaw
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
Hudson Stuck
Dictation Translations
dictation in German is Diktat, Diktat, diktieren
dictation in Italian is dettato, dettare
dictation in Spanish is dictar, dictado
dictation in Swedish is maktbud, diktamen, diktat
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