Synonyms of the word

dictate

• n. An order or command.
• v. To order, command, control.
• v. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

govern

• v. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority…
• v. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
• v. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
• v. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
• v. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
• v. (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word;…

impose

• v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
• v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• v. To practice a trick or deception.
• v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

inflict

• v. To thrust upon; to impose.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

prescribe

• v. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
• v. To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule…

prescript

• n. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
• n. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
• adj. Directed; prescribed.

principle

• n. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
• n. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
• n. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
• n. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
• n. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
• n. (obsolete) A beginning.
• n. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance;…
• n. An original faculty or endowment.
• v. (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any…

read

• v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
• v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
• v. To consist of certain text.
• v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
• v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
• v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
• v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
• v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
• v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
• n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
• n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
• n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.