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  • noun Plural form of dictum.

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Examples

  • Amy Chua has become today's firebrand with her Wall Street Journal article last weekend, and her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, sparking controversy over her criticisms of American parents and her dictums to her two daughters of no sleepovers, no playdates, no school plays, no TV or computer games, no grades lower than As, and no playing of any instruments other than the piano or violin.

    Ellen Galinsky: Success in Life is More Than Success in High School: Thoughts on the Tiger Mother Ellen Galinsky 2011

  • Amy Chua has become today's firebrand with her Wall Street Journal article last weekend, and her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, sparking controversy over her criticisms of American parents and her dictums to her two daughters of no sleepovers, no playdates, no school plays, no TV or computer games, no grades lower than As, and no playing of any instruments other than the piano or violin.

    Ellen Galinsky: Success in Life is More Than Success in High School: Thoughts on the Tiger Mother Ellen Galinsky 2011

  • Poor baby..she was so caught in the web of parental dictums.

    How I Became A Better Divorcee 2011

  • Because of that I disagree with the assertion that “theological dictums” states human life is sacred.

    Sacred? To Whom? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • Shortly after the first "Food Rules" debuted, Mr. Pollan, 56, began soliciting new dictums from readers and audiences at his speaking engagements.

    The Omnivorous Michael Pollan 2011

  • Catholics do not agree with them on the most basic moral issues -- from birth control to abortion, divorce to homosexuality -- acting in accordance with their own consciences, not the bishops' dictums.

    Angela Bonavoglia: Will Obama Abandon Women For Bishops? Angela Bonavoglia 2011

  • Wealth and power frees one from the constraints of the Old World and the dictums of behavior that go along with it.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Howard Gambit 2009

  • It will do so by mindlessly following the conservative dictums of small government, deregulation and free trade that Washington seems to have absorbed into it's DNA.

    Stephen Herrington: The State of the Union Is: Appalling Stephen Herrington 2011

  • I’ve discovered it interesting that many phrases in present usage have parallels in past dictums that use different key phrases meaning very much the same thing as they do today.

    An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck 2010

  • Bergson in his overhanging heaven of intuition, or like one who has bathed in Pentecostal fire and seen the New Jerusalem, so I have trod the materialistic dictums of science underfoot, scaled the last peak of philosophy, and leaped into my heaven, which, after all, is within myself.

    CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

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