Adjective : a tyrannical ruler.    From Dictionary.com. 

A tyrant in tyrannic times; a lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of Geneva] Reference

They ruled awhile and theirs was harsh tyrannic rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

There be rulers who have ruled with a foul tyrannic sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

They ruled awhile and theirs was harsh tyrannic rule, iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

There be rulers who have ruled with a foul tyrannic sway, i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

It seems Local Option is sure of adoption, and what a tyrannic majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891] Reference

English insolence; and his religious bias, at once tyrannic and territorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Emperor a Turkish despot, a sultan, &c., and José Bonifacio a tyrannic vizier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Admiration of his tyrannic will has at last made him peaceful sovereign of the Kremlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

A delegation was sent to the king with a strong remonstrance against his tyrannic course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Her lips parted; from them came another trumpeting — tyrannic, arrogant and clangorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

It was like the resurrection of Prussia in 1813, against the tyrannic domination of the French emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

But Frederick is responsible, as every principal is, who launches an agent in a lawless and tyrannic course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

Looking back we can fairly claim that the Empire was no pomp and glory parade and no tyrannic imposition of a system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Without the Empire] Reference

Two years later Mr. Davidson met the king, and, refusing to submit conscience to his tyrannic will, was cast into prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Bill Nighy did any excellent job with his part as he had in previous movies, he makes a great tyrannic and ruthless vampire.    From Wordnik.com.  [3rd Underworld Movie] Reference

After several weak or tyrannic reigns, the Roman Empire had a good emperor in Probus, whom the legions massacred, and elected.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

In the end of LBA I the mother-figure rises and envelops Twinsen in her love when he has conquered the evil tyrannic father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2001-11-01] Reference

Aristotle held a tyrannic sway over the public mind; but they have been gradually yielding to the more lofty and sublime teachings of Plato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

No, he had argued with Markwart at many turns, and had followed his own course on occa - sion, to the frustration of the tyrannic Father Abbot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortalis]

This is not a war for freeing americans from the tyrannic grip of iraqis, this is not a war because iraqi set foot on US soil and killed civilians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Murtha Plans To Deny Bush Funding For Troop Escalation] Reference

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansfield Park] Reference

But if we are unable to combat aggressive dictators, tyrannic regimes, this is something that endangers the very existence of the international peace and harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003] Reference

He had impoverished, imprisoned, exiled, and even slaughtered his subjects in great numbers, without other fault than their refusal to submit conscience to his tyrannic will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Spirit of an indulged tyrannic Disposition indites every arbitrary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks on Clarissa (1749)] Reference

Beckford Walpole says: -- 'Under a jovial style of good humour he was tyrannic in Jamaica, his native country.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference

Darius felt the full force of the letter; and as he suffered, so he became terrible and tyrannic in his suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

For the heavy yoke of modern fashion has been flung on the neck of Al Kahira, and the irresistible, tyrannic dominion of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ziska] Reference

I obey something tyrannic "-- she spread out her hands again --" I am forced to be withered, to feel pain, to be dying slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

As an instance of the early development of the tyrannic tendencies of human nature, it is, in a philosophical point of view, quite unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference

That he was disposed to do his servants good, on important occasions, is no great mitigation; benefaction can be but rare, and tyrannic peevishness is perpetual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference

What we are now facing is not slavery, -- an institution that may be abolished by statute -- but its offspring, Caste -- a spirit pervasive, subtle, sophistical, tyrannic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference

Thou wert not idly vexatious in vestries, nor ordinarily tyrannic in thy parish; if thou wert ever arbitrary it was only when thy pleasure was checked, or thy vanity wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

He anchors his yacht in the middle of the Thames -- as if the tyrannic authorities of the Port of London would ever allow a yacht, or any other craft, to anchor in midstream!.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference