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dict.

American  

abbreviation

  1. dictation.

  2. dictator.

  3. dictionary.


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I came across it once in a book and looked it out in the dict. to see what it meant.

From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

Thomy ten. di. feod. in Bliston dict. feod.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

And so forth. ut dict., ut dictum=As said. ut sup., ut supra=As above. ux., uxor=Wife.   v., versus=Against; vide=See; Verb; Verse; Volume; Viscount.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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