释义 |
dicˈtator-like, a. and adv. A. adj. Like or befitting a dictator.
1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 34 If they only took a Dictatorlike power. 1644J. Goodwin Danger Fighting agst. God 47 Any ambitious or Dictator-like designe. 1680Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 261 A Style and Language more Magisterical, Dictator-like. B. adv. Like or after the manner of a dictator.
1581Mulcaster Positions xlv. (1887) 293, I do not herein take vpon me dictatorlike to pronounce peremptorily. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. To Rdr. A vj a, Nor have wee Dictator-like obtruded our conceptions. |