Captain and Dictate

Captain

Captain verb - To exercise authority or power over.

Usage example: captained the project for a few days while the boss was out of town

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Dictate and captain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dictate" instead a verb "Captain".

Nearby Words: captained, captainship, captaincy, captaining

Dictate verb - To request the doing of by virtue of one's authority.

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Captain and dictate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captain" instead a verb "Dictate".

way	captain way	dictate way
history	captain history	dictate history

When the Doctor alters a fixed point in time in The Waters of Mars and thinks of himself as "the Time Lord Victorious", with the ability to dictate the laws of time and manipulate the course of history to whatever he wants, Captain Brook tries to convince him that nobody should be able to do that.

Source: No Man Should Have This Power

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