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Vinony

dictatory

adjective

  1. of, like, or pertaining to a dictator
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Classical Latin dictātōrius. By surface analysis, dictate + -ory.

  1. Exessively strict.

    “[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.”

    “There is philosophercraft as well as priestcraft, both from one source, both of one spirit. In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle French dictatorie, from Classical Latin dictātor + Middle French -ie. By surface analysis, dictate + -ory.

  1. Synonym of dictate.
  2. Synonym of dictatorship.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:dictatories.”