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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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.

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