† despoticaladj.
Obsolete.
= despotic adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > tyrannical, despotic, or autocratic
tyrant1297
tyrannous1491
Pharaonical1528
tyrannical1560
tyrannizing1589
servile1603
despotical1608
monarchicala1618
Nimrodian1631
autocratoric1641
Dominical1644
despotic1650
Pendragonish1650
autocratical1651
autocratorical1651
Pharaonian1673
autocratic1769
Pharaonic1792
Corsican1804
Napoleonic1810
satrapian1822
satrapical1823
sultanic1827
absolutist1829
absolutistic1841
arbitrary1862
Napoleonistic1870
Nimrodic1877
pre-Hitlerian1942
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 68 Free'd themselves whollie from that Despotical kind of government.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 67 Under the despoticall rule of the Monarch.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. xv. §172 Despotical Power is an absolute, arbitrary Power one Man has over another.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 393 Of the most free, as well as of the most despotical [governments] . View more context for this quotation
1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian iv. iii. 183 Despotical speaking and acting of the clergy.
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