dictatory

English

Alternative forms

• dictatorie (archaic)

Etymology

Latin dictatorius.

Adjective

dictatory (comparative more dictatory, superlative most dictatory)

1. dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:

     [B]ut rather, as I hope, for that our Engliſh, the language of men ever famous, and formoſt in the atchievements of liberty, will not eaſily finde ſervile letters anow to ſpell ſuch a dictatorie preſumption Engliſh.

Noun

dictatory (plural dictatories)

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of dictate
2. (nonstandard) Synonym of dictatorship
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:dictatories.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dictatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)