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/dɪktˈeɪtər/ /dˈɪkteɪtər/ Listen

noun

Dictator n.

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

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."

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Etymology of 'Dictator'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dictator" Quotes from Famous Books

... Caesar married Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, which connected him still more closely with the popular party. He was only a few years younger than Cicero and Pompey. When he was eighteen he attracted the notice of Sulla, then dictator, who wished him to divorce his wife and take such a one as he should propose,—which the young man, at the risk of his life, refused to do. This boldness and independence of course displeased the Dictator, who ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord

... even being known or important enough to be named "Dictator," now and then, in the papers, I've had my fun in the game very quietly. Yet I did come pretty near being a famous man once, a good while ago, for about a week. That was just after Hector J. Ransom made his great speech ...

— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington

... other sailors, and tell them what a shame and ignominy it was, that such a poor miserable wretch should be such a tyrant over much better men than himself. And they begged and conjured them as men, to put up with it no longer, but the very next time, that Jackson presumed to play the dictator, that they should all withstand him, and let him know his place. Two or three times nearly all hands agreed to it, with the exception of those who used to slink off during such discussions; and swore that they would not any more submit to being ruled by ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ...

— A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History • John G. Nicolay

... Universal News Service dispatch. Authorities of a republic in the Caribbean had arrested the country's former dictator on a charge of planning a revolution, pointing to a large cache of arms and ammunition found on his estate as evidence. Arrested for complicity was the president of the Compania Maritima Caribe y Atlantica. Warrants were being issued for a ...

— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine

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