dictation
/dɪkˈteɪʃən/ noun C2- Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words. · Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
- An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
- The act of ordering or commanding.
- Orders given in an overbearing manner. · His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Plural dictations
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Sit at this desk and write to my dictation.
We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a smile which exalted that infatuated youth straightway into the seventh heaven of delight and caused him to make such fearful errors in his dictation that Mr.
But besides all this, in order that the instrument may not be contested, I am anxious to give it the greatest possible authenticity, therefore, one of my colleagues will help me, and, contrary to custom, will assist in the dictation of the testament.
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