DICTATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dictated mean? 

• DICTATED (adjective)
  The adjective DICTATED has 1 sense:

1. determined or decided upon as by an authority

  Familiarity information: DICTATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICTATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determined or decided upon as by an authority

Synonyms:

determined; dictated; set

Context example:

the time set for the launching

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

 Context examples 

These feelings dictated my answer to my father.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“And now one word more: it was Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He much regretted that any personal bias should have been read into his remarks, which were entirely dictated by his desire for scientific truth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My reason dictated that the beating Thomas Mugridge had received was an ill thing, and yet for the life of me I could not prevent my soul joying in it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Also, he had a great respect for those who sat in the high places and dictated the policies of nations and newspapers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He said a man was not to be dictated to.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of those moons formed alongside their planets and never went anywhere; others were captured later, then locked into orbits dictated by their planets.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

Poor Miss Bates may very likely have committed her niece and hurried her into a greater appearance of intimacy than her own good sense would have dictated, in spite of the very natural wish of a little change.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Method dictated by CFR.

(Code of Federal Regulations Method, Food and Drug Administration)