Crossword-Solution: DICTATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dictation | n. | The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated. |
| Dictation | n. | The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DICTATION | anagram | ICANTDOIT |
We have 17 clues for the answer “DICTATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| matter that has been dictated and transcribed | 1 answer |
| act of dictating words to be taken down in writing | 1 answer |
| Business study course. | 1 answer |
| A secretary might take it | 1 answer |
| no choice | 4 answers |
| determinism | 5 answers |
| necessitude | 6 answers |
| Fatalism | 13 answers |
| Fatality | 28 answers |
| injunction | 32 answers |
| hard necessity | 36 answers |
| Directive | 44 answers |
| Fortune | 70 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
| Necessity | 74 answers |
| Destiny | 83 answers |
| Order | 125 answers |
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Sentences with DICTATION (5)
Howard Archie is standing at the window of his private room in the offices of the San Felipe Mining Company, on the sixth floor of the Raton Building, looking off at the mountain glories of his State while he gives dictation to his secretary.
Eddy’s that she wrote _Science And Health_ from the direct dictation of the Deity; yet in England nearly forty years ago Orton had a huge army of devotees and incorrigible adherents, many of whom remained stubbornly unconvinced after their fat god had been proven an impostor and jailed as a perjurer, and today Mrs.
His work consisted in writing all the morning to the professor’s dictation, and he usually spent the evening in hunting up references and passages which bore upon the next day’s work.
And to lose her by the interference and the dictation of others, by an impudent old woman and a pretentious fop stepping in with their “authority”! It was too preposterous, it was too pitiful.
There are candid native whites who do not deny, but justify, the violent methods which have been employed to disfranchise the negroes, or compel them to vote under white dictation, in many parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, on the ground that the men who pay the taxes should vote them and control the disbursement of the public moneys.
Quotes with DICTATION (3)
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quot…
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–2008).