Dictate vs Promulgate - What's the difference?
dictate | promulgate |
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,
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
To make known or public.
To put into effect as a regulation.
As verbs the difference between dictate and promulgate
is that dictate is to order, command, control while promulgate is to make known or public.As a noun dictate
is an order or command.dictate
English
Verb
(dictat)- Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
- She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
- The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.