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adjective

Dictatorial adj.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. "Military powers quite dictatorial."

Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dictatorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... secret police headquarters, was set up in the palace, with functions which it extended beyond the palace, with the result that many people were arrested and disappeared. This office was set up by the eunuchs and the clique at their back, and was the first dictatorial organ created in the course of a development towards despotism that made steady progress ...

— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... the innovation of binding myself to buy from one concern; for I felt intuitively that as soon as the Trust was all-powerful it would begin to exercise dictatorial sway ...

— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams

... lay down some particular rules for the choice of those subjects which are most likely to conduce to the cheerful delights proposed from this social communication; but, as such an attempt might appear absurd, from the infinite variety, and perhaps too dictatorial in its nature, I shall confine myself to rejecting those topics only which seem most foreign to this delight, and which are most likely to be attended with consequences rather tending to make society an evil than to procure us ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... anything occurred, to his knowledge, that should have induced his commanding-officer, without any other warning than the hints we noticed at the end of the fourteenth chapter, so suddenly to assume a harsh, and, as Edward deemed it, so insolent a tone of dictatorial authority. Connecting it with the letters he had just received from his family, he could not but suppose that it was designed to make him feel, in his present situation, the same pressure of authority which had been exercised in his father's case, ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

... conducted with an absent-mindedness that puzzled his host, the eminent iron-master, Jacob Cruit, who had exchanged an income of a million a year and dictatorial powers for a governmental wage of one dollar per annum, no authority, no ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

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