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Yes, dictate is playable

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"Dictate" Definition

noun

A directive; a command.
A guiding principle: followed the dictates of my conscience.
A ruling principle .
A command by one in authority.
An authoritative rule, prescription, or injunction.

verb-transitive

To control or command: "Foreign leaders were . . . dictated by their own circumstances, bound by the universal imperatives of politics” ( Doris Kearns Goodwin).
To prescribe with authority; impose: dictated the rules of the game.
To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another: dictate a letter.

verb-intransitive

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

verb

To require or determine necessarily .
To issue as an order.
To impose, pronounce, or specify authoritatively.
To speak or read for a person to transcribe or for a machine to record.
To give .

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