So far as mythology and present day conditions can inform us the bride has always gone to the home of her husband and, for a time at least, has been subject to the dictations of her mother-in-law, although the couple are generally soon established in a home of their own, in the town of the groom.
"Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore"
Fay-Cooper Cole
Or, to put the case under a slightly different form:-When the astronomer, the physicist, the geologist, or the naturalist notes down a series of observed facts or measured dates, he is not an author expressing his own ideas,-he is a mere amanuensis taking down the dictations of nature: his observation book is the record of the thoughts of another mind: he has but set down literally what he himself does not understand, or only very imperfectly.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes
The lectures were mere dictations from manuscript, necessitated by the lack of accessible texts.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin