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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. David Norris:

    Fed policy is dictated by data, and on a meeting-by-meeting basis.

  3. Harold Bornstein:

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

  4. Abraham Lincoln:

    The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

  5. Rami Hashish:

    Once you enter such a crowd, you no longer have control over your environment. How you move, for instance, is no longer dictated by how you want to move, but rather, how the crowd is moving you.

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