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‖ diktat|ˈdɪktæt| [a. G. diktat dictate n.] a. A severe settlement or decision, esp. one imposed by a victorious nation upon a defeated nation, a dictated peace; used spec. with reference to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. b. A dictate, decree, or command; a categorical assertion.
1933‘A German Diplomat’ Hitler—Germany & Europe (Friends of Europe, No. 2) 9 The treaty of Versailles..was not a ‘Diktat’ which artificially imposed a solution foreign to reality. 1940Time 1 Jan. 47/1 If a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished..at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. 1940Times Weekly 7 Aug. 9/3 (headline) Axis plans for Rumania—popular resistance to ‘Diktat’. 1941Mind L. 290 He decreed that sense-data are not to have unnoticed characteristics... This Diktat of his would seem to imply that sense-data can have determinable shapes without having determinate ones. 1948A. J. Toynbee Civilization on Trial v. 79 The psychological effect of the British diktat of a.d. 1842. 1959Listener 22 Jan. 158/2 The Soviet draft was fundamentally different from the Versailles ‘diktat’. 1963Times 27 May 13/4 Naked aggression against any state in Africa which does not accept the diktat of himself and his friends. |