Adjective : autocratic government. ,autocratic behavior; an autocratic person. From Dictionary.com.
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 meanwhile he possessed no autocratical authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution] Reference
The style of presentation is indeed somewhat discursive, especially in the citing and refuting of opposite opinions, and runs often into unprofitable distinctions and splittings of ideas, but the substantial contents are in the main so sound and excellent, that the almost autocratical authority enjoyed by. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
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 without which I cannot exist, or by the election which in past time I deliberately made; and this, because it is dictated by the present frame of my spirit, and is therefore that in which the powers my nature has entailed upon me may be most fully manifested. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
Very autocratical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2003] Reference
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