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Dictator : (noun)
1: a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
2: a ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: potentate]
3: a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a
dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: authoritarian]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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DICTATOR, civil law. A Magistrate at Rome invested with absolute power. His
authority over the lives and fortunes of the citizens was without bounds.
His office continued but for six months. Hist. de la Jur. h.t.; Dig. l, 2,
18; Id. 1, 1, 1.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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