Dictation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DICTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act, art or practice of dictating
• the action of dictating words to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape
• the activity of taking down a passage that is dictated by a teacher as a test of spelling, writing, or language skills
• words that are dictated
• the action of giving orders authoritatively or categorically.
• act of dictating words to be taken down in writing
• 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.
• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
• speech intended for reproduction in writing
• matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• prescription; arbitrary command

Words related to DICTATION

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Words that contain DICTATION

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How to use DICTATION in a sentence

• This young man can not only write, but write to my dictation, an accomplishment in which thou hast been found lacking, O Sergius.
• He at once agreed to draw up a new will at her dictation, completely cutting off his wife.
• He would follow the dictation of the English ministers and the English generals.
• I have not done this in the spirit of dictation, my young friend, but merely with the wish of helping you by my greater experience of life.
• Great as her gratitude was, her family pride resented dictation, and resented also the implied slight to poor Nat.
• From despising the human faculties, men came back to an acceptance of their dictation, and even to an animal delight in the senses and passions.
• There is more dictation, more political heresy, more dangerous doctrine contained in this petition, than I have ever before seen couched together in so many words.
• Popova, writing under dictation, sent a message to Morovenia to the effect that they had been compelled to wait a week in order to get comfortable rooms on a steamer.
• And then proceeded to provide what I can only call dictation.
• Right here must come in a line of truth that will lead us from the spirit of dictation in our prayers to God in all matters pertaining to our worldly concerns.
• Their exercises in reading, speaking with one another, and writing from dictation, succeeded perfectly.
• We have to write composition by dictation, as Miss Martin calls it.
• Claire had rather looked for him to-day, and had prepared herself for a flood of accumulated dictation.
• They wrote out in every tongue the holy Gospel, and the story and teaching of Christ, at the dictation of the Holy Ghost.
• You shall repeat them, and I will write them down from your dictation.
• This method of dictation is more satisfactory than that of dictating a bar at a time, as it draws attention to musical phrases as a whole.
• Opinion is generally unanimous in favour of the third, sixth, and octave, which will therefore be the basis of the first exercises in two-part dictation.
• Before a class has finished the major keys it should be ready for the dictation of three-part chords.
• A number of letters had accumulated and they had put in the whole afternoon at dictation.
• During his delirium he composed a good many verses, and ordered his servant to write them down from his dictation.
• All these dialogues were collected, not at the close of the seance, but at the moment, and under the dictation of the table.
• That revolt of the people against the dictation of the newspapers was momentous in its results.
• She wrote, to his dictation, the autobiographical notes used in the memoir of him.
• The inhabitants of the island were now almost entirely French, and with their companions on the coast of Hispaniola had no intention of submitting to English dictation.
• The king could not do otherwise than submit to their dictation.
• During so long drawn out a suspense I tried to ease the tension by dictation.
• Robertson tells us that a portion of the story was written by Haggart, and the remainder taken down from his dictation.
• There is little popular superstition to endure its former dictation.
• Something has interrupted the dictation after the last chapter.
• You are not ignorant that I have taken these accounts from the first reports of the Admiral as rapidly as your secretary could write under my dictation.
• She had brought her notebook prepared to take dictation.
• But this intractable old Spartan, with his dictation of party principles that meant the loss of policy, power, and profits, had angered him to his marrow.
• At Oxford the heads of houses and the senior doctors and masters submitted their consciences to state dictation, without opposition, and, as it seemed, without reluctance.

Similar words containing DICTA without suffix tion

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