Dictate is valid Scrabble Word

Is dictate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is dictate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DICTATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to read aloud for recording
state or order authoritatively
control or decisively affect; determine
say or read aloud (words to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape)
say aloud for someone else to write down
To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.
To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.
To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).
To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.

issue commands or orders for
say out loud for the purpose of recording
rule as a dictator

NOUN:

an order or principle that must be obeyed
a guiding principle
authoritative command

Words related to DICTATE

dict7 dictated12 dictates11 dictating13

Words that contain DICTATE

dictated12 dictates11 redictate12 redictated14 redictates13

How to use DICTATE in a sentence

This also failing, his Eminence endeavoured to dictate to the country through the Earl of Arran, the Governor of Scotland.
The scene is now changed, and with it the part which the same motives dictate.
But if motives of duty were not sufficient to restrain us from engaging in such lawless enterprises, our evident interest ought to dictate this policy.
Different circumstances will dictate different action on such a point.
More than once, in the line of duty imposed by his high office, he had been obliged to make decisions contrary to every dictate of mercy.
The power of the financiers has become so great that they are now able to dictate the policy of Europe.
Newman, as you admit, has written a book which has put you in possession of moral and spiritual truth, surely it may be modestly contended that God might dictate a better.
To do honor to his memory I need only say what justice and truth dictate.
Curly was shot and he made it his death-bed duty to dictate this delectable tale to a friend.
The object of this is to limit expenses, and dictate a constitution.

It is also the result of experience and the dictate of reason that general taxation is the only means by which universal education can be secured.
For the apparently liberated poet would merely have exchanged prisons if he learned that the founder of the fellowship wished to dictate what sort of poetry he should write.
Keeping in view the end from the beginning, we need a central organizing principle which shall dictate for teacher and pupil the highway over which they shall travel together.
You select what fancy and appetite dictate, without any supervision.
Major ARCHER-SHEE wanted to have up a certain newspaper for breach of privilege in endeavouring to dictate to Members how they should vote.
Our own impulse shall with us alone dictate the expression of feeling.
Finally, in 1678, he was able practically to dictate his own terms to the allies.
He was never confined or bound with chains, but permitted to enjoy himself as his maniac fancies might dictate.
Throughout the settlements labour as a rule was in demand, often able to dictate its own terms, nomadic, and careless of politics.
Everything that generosity or humanity could dictate was promptly performed.
He had power to alter details according as circumstances might dictate, but that was all.
The latter assented to this arrangement, secretly resolving to dictate other terms where his will should both command and be obeyed.
It is not for us to dictate the conduct which a woman smarting under injuries so cruel ought to have pursued.
In attempting to alter or make new laws, these essentials should be kept clearly in mind, but special conditions peculiar to each state dictate modifications of any general plan.

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