What is "dictat"

Usage examples of "dictat".

OpsAvocat, hoping to become the second living Dictat of the century, had drawn only cool support while Hanaver Strate, whose campaign had consisted of an admission that he would stand, had drawn approval from sixty-eight percent of the electorate.

True power resided in the Dictats, enthroned at either side of Marmigus at a lower elevation.

There's Pidoon, or there's the Dictat of Telmar—and every second person there is supposed to be a spy.