Dictating [verb]

He seldom got up till late in the day, dictating his letters and receiving his ministers in bed.

Because of God's authority dictating it as a law, his will revealed conferred obligation.

But M. Boscheron, my secretary, respectfully remarks that I keep on dictating the same sentence.

In the afternoon I generally work again, now alone drafting, now with Belle dictating.

After a while he turned to his own books and spent most of the day reading or in dictating to Las Cases.

He was listless too, preferring others to read to him and dictating nearly all his letters.

He was fond of dictating poems and descriptions of these travels.

Opposite him stands a desperate and determined man dictating terms.

Now, poor Tony delivered this with a tone and manner that implied he thought he was dictating a very telling and able despatch.

There was a rumour,—no doubt a false rumour,—that the Crown insisted in this instance on dictating a choice to the Duke of Omnium.