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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[LL., fr.

dictare

to dictate.]

A dictation or dictate.

[R.]

Falkland.

dictamen ‎(plural dictamens)

A dictation or dictate.
- Lord Falkland
  That is to say, you are to trust to your own particular discourses, as to particular discourses, and no farther; but to the resolves of the church as to the dictamens of a higher understanding, by the light of which you are to judge and censure of the rest.

dictamen m ‎(plural dictámenes)