~ DICT~         start see> ADAGE
^u ^s           id+ | lat prefix for = TO SAY  EXPRESS |
~ DICTATE       id+ | DECREE COMMAND AUTHORITY CONTROL |
~ DICTATOR      id+ | DESPOT  TYRANT  AUTOCRAT | 
                id+ | CONDUCTOR OF CONDUCTS | 
~ DICTION       id+ | SAYING EXPRESSION PARLANCE |
~ DICTATORSHIP  id+ | AUTOCRACY TYRANNY DESPOTISM |
                id+ | TYRANNY a form of BARBARISM |
~ DICTIONARY    id+ | AN AUTHORITATIVE GLOSSARY or
                      LISTING OF WORD EXPRESSION |
~ DICTUM        id+ | AN ASSERTION or SAYING or EDICT |
                note nuances in CONDUCT DUCTILE DICTUM
  note implications in see> DICTYO for NET
  lat     DICTATUS   or
          DICTARE    COMMAND COMMANDER
          DICTION    SAYING
  note               related impact of Latin terms
                     DICTUS DICERE DICTUM DICTA on
                     DICTATE SAY or DICTION DICTIONARY
                     DICTIONARY DITTO DITTY and extensions
                     BENEDICT MALEDICTION INDICATOR INDEX
                     DUCT DUCTUS DUCTILE CONDUCT DUKE
  eng     DICTATE    same but with an overtone of
                     ORAL COMMAND
  skrt    DISATI     TO SPEAK POINT
  sp      DECIR      TO SAY
  lat     DICERE     same
  note               meanings in other tongues
  Gothic  TEIHAN     TELL as in SHOW
  ger     ZEICHEN   SIGN
          ZEIHEN    ACCUSE
  Hittite TEK       SHOW  PROVE
  ukr     TAK       THIS  YES
  leads to a very large word array
  note implications in DICTUM   DICTION
                       DICTIONARY  DICTATE
  ADDICT ADDICTION  DITTO  ABDICATE  CONDITION
  DEDICATE  CONTRADICT INDICATE  INDITE  INDEX
  EDICT  JUDGE  INDICTMENT  INTERDICT  JUDICATE
  JUDICIAL  VERDICT  JURISDICTION  PREDICT
  PARADIGM  VERIDICAL  VINDICATE
  hx> DIKTE is the name of a MOUNTAIN IN CRETE
  hx> REGARDING DICTIONARIES VERO FLACO [#]
      AT THE TIME OF CAESAR AUGUSTUS COMPILED
      A 20 VOLUME LATIN DICTIONARY
  hx> in 1587 Alonso SANCHES de la BALLESTA [#]
      PUBLISHED THE "DICCIONARIO DE VOCABLOS CASTELLANOS"
      from which evolved modern Spanish
  hx> in 1694 THE FRENCH ACADEMY PUBLISHED
      THE FIRST FRENCH DICTIONARY
  hx> in 1868 PUBLICATION STARTED OF THE
      OXFORD NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY
  hx> THE AMERICAN LEXICOGRAPHER NOAH WEBSTER 1758-1843
      CREATED THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF
  DICTIONARIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  SOME VERSIONS ARE VERITABLE MASTERPIECES [37]
  hx> REGARDING ROMAN DICTATORS
      THE SENATE COULD IN TIMES OF DANGER   sug> CRUX
  APPOINT A MAGISTRATE AS DICTATOR          sug> CZAR
  AND PROVIDED HIM WITH ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY  sug> DUKE
  TO DICTATE                                sug> DUCE
  hx> COMMUNISTS JUSTIFIED OPPRESSION       sug> TYRANT
      AND IMMENSE CRIMES BY A DOCTRINE      sug> DOGMA
  CLAIMING THE RIGHT OF THE                 sug> JUSTICE
  PROLETARIAT TO DICTATORSHIP               sug> PROLIFIC
  sp  PROLE = OFFSPRING or CHILDREN         sug> PRODUCE
  lat PROLETARIUS implying "COMMONER"       sug> LETHAL
  ply> | DICTATORSHIP BY A PROLETARIAT
         ARE MODERN FAIRY TALES FOR DUPED MASSES |
  note DICTATORS QUITE OFTEN SPEAK OF LIBERTY
       DICTATORSHIPS PROPAGANDA PUTS STRESS ON FREEDOM
  maxim> | NONE ARE MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED
           THAN THOSE WHO FALSELY BELIEVE
           THEY ARE  attr to J W von GOETHE [#] |
  maxim> | DICTATORSHIP is a reversion to BARBARISM |
  maxim> | DICTATORS must banish the MUSES |
           modified from and attr to
  Philip Dormer STANHOPE [#] the Earl of Chesterfield, 1949
  hx>    POPES are elected as AUTOCRATS of the VATICAN
  hx>    DICTUM in LAW is a DECREE or
         JURIDICAL VEREDICT
  ply> | VERITABLE VERIFIABLE VERACITY DICTATES A VERDICT |
  note nuances related to DICTUM in
       ADAGE  APHORISM  AXIOM  BYWORD  CLICHE  DICTUM
  EPITOME  HOMILY  MAXIM  MOTTO  PRECEPT  PROVERB
  SAYING  SLOGAN
  cont> see> EPITOME