autocraticadj.

1769 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 21 June 1/3 A statute made to suppress and annihilate the exercise of all autocratic power in matters where any inheritance is concerned.

1782 G. R. Fitzgerald Appeal to Public 148 Though this stretch of judge-craft, was autocratic in itself.., yet they continued the practice of it.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X xlix. 77 The fair Czarina's Autocratic crest.

1867 C. H. Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 49 The tax on salt..was farmed out to almost autocratic contractors.

1936 E. Goudge City of Bells vii. 177 Spiritually the Bishop was a very great man but physically he was not, being small and thin and lacking that autocratic bearing that made the Dean such a fine figure of a man.

1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 164/1 Some of the players the club netted from abroad could not respond happily to his autocratic presence on the field.

2008 Big Issue Christmas 43/2 He has to contend with..his controlling mother, played by Gemma Jones as an autocratic old stick.