1. • noun - an authoritative rule
   • noun - a guiding principle
   • verb - issue commands or orders for
   • verb - say out loud for the purpose of recording
   • verb - rule as a dictator
2. • To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another: dictate a letter.
   • To prescribe with authority; impose: dictated the rules of the game.
   • To control or command: “Foreign leaders were... dictated by their own circumstances, bound by the universal imperatives of politics” (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
   • To say or read aloud material to be recorded or written by another: dictated for an hour before leaving for the day.
   • To issue orders or commands.
   • A directive; a command.
   • The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to set forth expressly and authoritatively”: victors dictating the terms of surrender; confiscation of alien property decreed by the legislature; impose obedience; a separation seemingly ordained by fate; taxes prescribed by law.
3. • v - to read aloud for recording

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