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adj. - Relating to or of the nature of or having characteristics of a government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; Of the nature of or relating to a ruler who has complete authority.

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  • Adjective : autocratic government. ,autocratic behavior; an autocratic person
  • Evidence has already been adduced to shew that the senior presbyter of Smyrna continued to preside until the days of Irenaeus, and there is also documentary proof that...
  • The style of presentation is indeed somewhat discursive, especially in the citing and refuting of opposite opinions, and runs often into unprofitable distinctions and...
  • It is good for man that he should feel himself at some time unshackled and autocratical, that he should say, This I do, because it is prescribed to me by the conditions...
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