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Definition of Autocratic

1. Adjective. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power. "A swaggering peremptory manner"

2. Adjective. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. "A tyrannical government"

Definition of Autocratic

1. a. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

Definition of Autocratic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autocratic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autocratic

autoconvective autoconversion autocorrection autocorrections autocorrelated autocorrelation autocorrelational autocorrelations autocorrelator autocorrelators

autocovariance autocracies autocracy autocrat autocratic (current term) autocratical autocratically autocrator autocratorical autocrators

autocratrices autocratrix autocrats autocrime autocrimes autocrine autocrine communication autocrine hypothesis autocrine motility factor

Literary usage of Autocratic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of the Government of Modern States by William Franklin Willoughby (1919)
"The autocratic type of government, as indicated, is that class of ... All laws are 'We have preferred the term autocratic to that more usually employed. ..."

2. Modern Constitutions: A Collection of the Fundamental Laws of Twenty-two of by Walter Fairleigh Dodd (1908)
"The Emperor of all the Russias wields the supreme autocratic power. ... The same supreme autocratic power shall belong likewise to the Empress when the ..."

3. The Offender and His Relations to Law and Society by Burdette Gibson Lewis (1921)
"VIII autocratic GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE Kinds of Government. ... The autocratic. 2. The Benevolent Despotic. 3. The Mixed autocratic and Benevolent ..."

4. The Evolution of Literature by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie (1911)
"CHAPTER XIX SIGNIFICANCE OF autocratic DATA IT is evident, of course, that norms fit to be called literary do eventuate in the lower civilisations. ..."

5. The Panama Gateway by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1913)
"CHAPTER XIX autocratic POWER CONFERRED ON THE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF ENGINEER — RULE OF THE "BENEVOLENT DESPOT" THE imperative necessity for single-handed, ..."

6. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"The Government assumed more and more of an autocratic complexion. The French Minister, d'Avaux, describes Charles at this period as even more imperious in ..."

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