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Dictate vs Summoning - What's the difference?

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Dictate is a related term of summoning.


As nouns the difference between dictate and summoning

is that dictate is an order or command while summoning is the act by which somebody is summoned.

As verbs the difference between dictate and summoning

is that dictate is to order, command, control while summoning is .

dictate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An order or command.
    • I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

    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.

    Derived terms

    * dictation * dictator

    summoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is summoned.
    • spirit summonings