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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DICTATION, n. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing.
It affords security against the dictation of laws.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an authoritative direction or instruction to do something [syn: command, bid, bidding, dictation]
2: speech intended for reproduction in writing
3: matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage; "he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1651 1. a. prescription b. arbitrary command 2. a. (1) the act or manner of uttering words to be transcribed (2) material that is dictated or transcribed b. (1) the performing of music to be reproduced by a student (2) music so reproduced

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the saying of words to be written down or recorded. b an instance of this, esp. as a school exercise. c the material that is dictated. 2 a authoritative prescription. b an instance of this. c a command. Phrases and idioms: dictation speed a slow rate of speech suitable for dictation.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dictation Dic*ta"tion, n. [L. dictatio.] 1. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. --Paley. 2. The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Prescription, direction. 2. Utterance (for copying).