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dic·tat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. determined, dictated, setadjective

    determined or decided upon as by an authority

    "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"

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  1. dictated

    Dictated is a term usually used to describe a situation where something is being determined, influenced, or controlled by a particular factor or authority. It can also refer to the act of speaking words aloud to be written down or recorded by someone else.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dictated

    of Dictate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dictated in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dictated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dictated in a Sentence

  1. Clayson Benally:

    Every time one of those elders leaves this world, it's like a whole library, a whole beautiful chapter of our history, of our ceremonies -- all that knowledge, gone, it's not written, it's not dictated, you're not going to find it on the internet.

  2. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

    Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

  3. Harold Bornstein:

    He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter, i just made it up as I went along.

  4. Finance Minister Michael Noonan:

    This is not being dictated by any political agenda. It looks now like the earliest opportunity will be November, December, and I'm not going to rush it. I don't need to sell any bit of AIB before the election.

  5. Christopher Morley:

    My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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