Dictator
a magistrate of ancient Rome, created in times of great emergency, distress, or danger and invested, during the term of his office, with absolute and unlimited power. The name DICTIONARY given to this magistrate was originally familiar to the Latin states. The office was styled dictator, a name already familiar to the Latin states. The office The dictator was nominated by one of the consuls in pursuance of a decree of the Senate, whence the name, from the nominator performed his duty at dead of night. Originally only one who had held the office of consul could be named dictator, but subsequently the office was thrown open to all, the first plebeian dic- 356. The dictator was named for six months only, but he seldom retained the office after the object for which he had was abolished by law after the death of Cæsar.
DICTIONARY (from the Latin dictio, taining the words, or subjects, which it treats, arranged in alphabetical order.
It may be either a vocabulary, or a collection of the words in a language, with their definitions, or on one or more branches of science or a special work art prepared on the principle of alphabetical arrangement, such as dictionaries of biography, law, music, medicine, etc.
Among the dictionaries of the English language, the earliest seem to have been those of Barett (1573), and of Bullobeen kar (1616). That of Dr. Johnson published in 1755 made an epoch in this department of literature. The first im- The first ims DIDACTIC etymological dictionary of English (1882); the chief French is that of Littré; German, that of Grimm. up of an ordinary telephone circuit to which is attached a granular carbon transmitter of a sensitiveness adequate to take up the words of persons conversing in a room so that they can be heard and recorded over the telephone. The transmitter is usually made small the instrument has been in the main emenough to be capable of concealment and ployed by detectives for the gathering of evidence relating to persons under suspicion. It is also coming into use for the reproduction of sounds in various parts of a hall and has also been installed in the waiting room of railway stations, the announcer having his voice cated in different parts of the building. megaphoned by telephone receivers loup of an ordinary telephone circuit to DICTOPHONE. An instrument made