Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dictator"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dictator \Dic*ta"tor\, n. [L.]
1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims
authoritatively for the direction of others. --Locke.
2. 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. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dictator
n 1: someone who rules unconstrained by law [syn: {potentate}]
2: behaves like a tyrant [syn: {authoritarian}]
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