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单词 dictature
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dictaturen.

Brit. /dɪkˈteɪtʃə/, U.S. /dɪkˈteɪtʃər/, /ˈdɪktətʃər/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French dictature; Latin dictātūra.
Etymology: < Middle French dictature (13th cent. in Old French; French dictature ) and its etymon classical Latin dictātūra office of a dictator, dictatorship < dictāt- , past participial stem of dictāre dictate v. + -ūra -ure suffix1. Compare Catalan dictadura (14th cent.), Spanish dictadura (13th cent.), Portuguese ditadura (1563), Italian dittatura (a1375), also German Diktatur (1511).For a possible earlier example see quot. a1450 at dictator n. 1a and discussion at that entry.
Now rare.
1. = dictatorship n. (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > position of
tyrannyc1374
dictaturec1475
dictatory1533
dictatorship1542
dictatorate1815
tyrannis1878
c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 193 The Romayn Fabius Maximus in the tyme of his dictature.
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. X.4 Manlius added more dayes to occupy the roume of his dictature [L. dictaturam] or emperyalite than was due by the lawe.
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 74 The other, who in ye Dictature [L. dictatura] had been Secretarie.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L1v What a strange resolution it was in Lucius Sylla, to resigne his Dictature . View more context for this quotation
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 9 Autors, who have usurpt a kind of Dictature in Sciences.
1755 R. Seagrave Princ. Liberty 20 They..used a Popish Claim, and the imposing it by Law, or Coercion, was a Stretch of Power. This shews..that secret Pride of Dictature, the Minds of good Men are capable of.
1837 L. Hunt Blue-stocking Revels ii, in Poet. Wks. (1844) 113 I can't see..Why love should await dear good Harriet's dictature!
1867 Contemp. Rev. 6 413 A temporal dictature took the place of the former..combination of the spiritual and temporal powers.
1928 New Eng. Q. 1 95 The ‘Second American Revolution’, as they call it [sc. the Civil War], is reduced..to the terms of a class war; the result to a dictature of Big Business.
1996 A. de Hoogh Obligations Erga Omnes & Internat. Crimes 400 A transition from a military government to a civilian one, or from a dictature to a democracy.
2. A group of individuals acting, or viewed as acting, with absolute power in the manner of a dictator. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > collectively
dictature1744
autocracy1795
1744 King George II Instr. by Regency of Hanover to Privy-Counsellor De Busch 17 It is no longer the same thing, when we come to consider the Proposition of a Memorial carried to the Dictature.
1759 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 203/2 An imperial decree of commission was carried to the dictature against that resolution.
1855 M. Bridges Pop. Mod. Hist. 435 Nine individuals were chosen out of it to form a Dictature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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