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/dɪktˈeɪtər/ /dˈɪkteɪtər/ Listen

noun

Dictator n.

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. "Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language."

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Etymology of 'Dictator'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dictator" Quotes from Famous Books

... directors and advisers, and the power of appointing all officials, save those of the highest rank, was finally in the hands of the Resident-General. This limitation, again, was soon put on one side. Thus, the Resident-General became dictator of Korea—a dictator, however, who still conducted certain branches of local affairs there through native officials and who had to reckon with the intrigues of a Court party which he could not as yet sweep ...

— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... fountain erected by Camillus when Dictator, and the Tarpeian rock, attract attention powerfully: ...

— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi

... little part or lot in the complaisant spirit of the man of the world, who from the depths of his mediocrity and ease presumes to promulgate the law of progress, and as dictator to fix its speed. Who does not know this temper of the man of the world, that worst enemy of the world? His inexhaustible patience of abuses that only torment others; his apologetic word for beliefs that may perhaps not be so precisely true as one might wish, and institutions ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... groups. Kimberley alternated between boom and bankruptcy. The genius of diamond mining lies in tempering output to demand. Rhodes realized that indiscriminate production would ruin the market, so he framed up the deal that made him the diamond dictator. He made Barnato an offer which was refused. With the aid of the Rothschilds in London Rhodes secretly bought out the French interests in the Barnato holdings for $6,000,000, which got his foot, so to speak, in the doorway of the opposition. But even this did not give him ...

— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... supposed superiority of the French army, he prepared for a war of revenge against Germany and aimed, with the help of Deroulede and Rochfort, at suppressing the parliamentary regime and establishing himself as dictator. His plans were answered in Germany by the acceptance of Bismarck's Septennat proposals for increasing the army and fixing its budget for seven years in advance. The war feeling in France diminished, and though it revived for a time owing to the arrest ...

— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw

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