dictate

1. A directive; a command.

2. A guiding principle: followed the dictates of my conscience.

3. A ruling principle .

4. A command by one in authority.

5. An authoritative rule, prescription, or injunction.

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1. To require or determine necessarily .

2. To issue as an order.

3. To impose, pronounce, or specify authoritatively.

4. To speak or read for a person to transcribe or for a machine to record.

5. To give .

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1. To issue orders or commands.

2. To say or read aloud material to be recorded or written by another: dictated for an hour before leaving for the day.

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1. To control or command: "Foreign leaders were . . . dictated by their own circumstances, bound by the universal imperatives of politics” ( Doris Kearns Goodwin).

2. To prescribe with authority; impose: dictated the rules of the game.

3. To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another: dictate a letter.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
dictate	10	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
it	2
ti	2
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id	3
ed	3
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3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
etic	6
dite	5
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idea	5
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tact	6
tace	6
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cade	7
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cedi	7
cite	6
aide	5
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acid	7
aced	7
dace	7
date	5
dice	7
diet	5
dita	5

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
tacet	7
tacit	7
tecta	7
atted	6
acted	8
attic	7
cadet	8
cited	8
dicta	8
edict	8

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
catted	9
cattie	8
dacite	9

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
dictate	10