Example sentences for: dicta

How can you use “dicta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “Beyond Compare” [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 4] does not mention a problem I had as a boy in referring to the younger of my two old brothers.

  • On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.

  • We thought we could ignore the error and it would go away, but readers keep reminding us of what might be called, because of its prominence, a typogiraffical error: in Murdering the Language [OBITER DICTA, XX,4,5], the grammatically proper form would have been Omar m'a tuée, (reflecting the feminine gender of the preceding m ') and not, as printed, tué .

  • This is demonstrated in a variety of ways: a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it; an awareness of what books are for; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM, with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE.

  • Anent “Beyond Compare” [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 4], let me throw another clod in the churn.


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