Dictatory

Quick meaning: Dictatory is an adjective meaning Exessively strict.

Meaning

Exessively strict.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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[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.

For every single one of our forty-four sovereign States, and about all of the Territories, have copious and dictatory statutes concerning railways, and these statutes are in every case to be added to—not held appealable to or reconcilable with, but collaterally additional to—the Act of Interstate Commerce!

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.

Word Forms

• dictatorie
• dictatories

Synonyms for dictatory

Depending on context, synonyms include dogmatical, overbearing, dictatorial, dictate, dictatorship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include domineering, overdogmatic, overbearing, heavyhanded, imperious, heavy-handed.

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