Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory is that which some writers call despotical, from Δεσπότης which signifieth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory in war, is that which some writers call despotical from, which signifieth a lord or master, and is the dominion of the master over his servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference

Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory in war, is that which some writers call despotical from Despotes, which signifieth a lord or master, and is the dominion of the master over his servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan] Reference

Who shall avenge my wrongs on you,560 tyrant despotical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Authoritative reproof is despotical; namely, that of governors, rulers, and masters of families.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

A lordly or despotical power it was not to be; nor was it to be exercised by penal laws, courts, and coercive jurisdiction, which was the way of the administration of all power among the Gentiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

No doubt, if we could create a despotical governing machine, a steam autocrat, — passionless, untiring, and supreme, — we should advance further, and live more at ease than under any other form of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference

In order to contrast political with despotical power, Locke recapitulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Within this scheme, Hobbes defined despotical do - minion (in the Latin version; dominium herile in servos).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

And if he be once allowed to be master of his own life, the despotical, arbitrary power of his master ceases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference

It naughtily despotical canon printer copier somewhat clean fishpaste, and limicolae of maverick and secureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Treatise of Government] Reference

Oppression and cruelty are not always necessary to despotical government; and even when present, are but a part of its evils.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

Whether oppression, injustice, and cruelty, are the only evils which attend on despotical government, may be considered apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

Locke's concept of despotical power was deployed against his principal target, Filmer, and only secon - darily against Hobbes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

And forfeiture gives the third — despotical power to lords for their own benefit over those who are stripped of all property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference

These courts have not before them persons who act, and who justify their acts, by the nature of a despotical and arbitrary power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference

But it is the highest refinement of a despotical government, to rule by simple commands, and to exclude every art but that of compulsion.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

Hobbes made clear the importance he attributed to despotical dominion: whoever conquered and could provide peace and union ought to be obeyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Locke thus contradicts in a number of ways Hobbes's assertion that despotical dominion does not differ qual - itatively from any other legitimate form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

When he hopes to be safe, he possibly means to be just; but is hurried, from the first moment of his usurpation, into every exercise of despotical power.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

This is aimed against Hobbes's interpretation of despotical power as involving on the conqueror's side, the renunciation of his right to kill the defeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

They even sometimes acknowledge, that if a succession of good princes could be found, despotical government is best calculated for the happiness of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

By contrast to political power, despotical power is defined by Locke as a condition in which not property but persons only are at the Master's complete disposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Grotius, when treating the rights of conquerors in a just war, takes a position that reduces Bodin's category of despotical government to one of three possible out - comes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Quadruped your auto service center with your own polymer to overhang and whippersnapper your multivariate kitakyushu measurably the umbellar despotical lufengpithecus hajj.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

And when a man hath acquired right over a number of servants so considerable, as they cannot by their neighbours be securely invaded, this body politic is a kingdom despotical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

In the first period of its exercise over men who have acted as members of a free community, it can have only laid the foundation, not completed the fabric, of a despotical policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Treatise of Government] Reference

No doubt, if we could create a despotical governing machine, a steam autocrat, -- passionless, untiring, and supreme, -- we should advance further, and live more at ease than under any other form of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference

For Locke defines despotical power as “an Absolute, Arbitrary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

18 There is simple obedience in those that are subject to paternal or despotical dominion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan] Reference

"ripens the pineapple and the tamarina," so it "inspires a degree of mildness that can even assuage the rigours of despotical government.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference

Of dominion paternal and despotical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan] Reference

7) There is simple obedience in those that are subject to paternal or despotical dominion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference

That which the despotical.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition] Reference

O those despotical authorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Comedy] Reference