Verb

(dictat)

To order, command, control.

* 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,

Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.

The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

Verb

(dominat)

To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone

To enjoy a commanding position in some field

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To overlook from a height