Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIC'TATE
DIC'TATE, n.
- An order delivered; a command.
- A rule, maxim or precept, delivered with authority. I credit what the Grecian dictates say. – Prior.
- Suggestion; rule or direction suggested to the mind: as, the dictates of reason or conscience.
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