"dict" meaning in English

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          "text": "The fifth and laſt Rule, keep a good and conſtant correſpondence, as between heart and tongue, to ſpeak as yee think (as was ſhewed before) ſo between tongue and hand to do what you ſay, to pay what you vow to God, and perform what you promiſe to men, and to ſay no more to either, than you can and will do, that there may bee an harmony between your words and your works, that as your Tongues are the interpreters of your minds, ſo your hands may bee the Executors of your Tongues, to perform the Dicts and Ingagements thereof. Good language joyned with real performance is (as one ſaith) as a pleaſant ſauce to wholeſome meat.",
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          "text": "I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project [4] and in my homepage [5]. […] There currently are three sorts of dicts:\n- The acronym dict\n- Translations from and to English languages",
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