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tyrantn.

/ˈtʌɪərənt/
Forms: α. Middle English tyraun, Middle English–1600s tyran, tyranne, Middle English–1600s tyrane, 1500s tiran, tiranne, 1600s tyrann, ScottishMiddle English terane, Middle English–1500s tirrane, 1500s tirane, tyrran(ne; β. Middle English (1500s Scottish) tir-, tyrand, Middle English tyrande, tir-, tyraund, terand (also 1500s Scottish), Middle English, 1500s Scottish tirr-, tyrrand, (1600s tyrannd); γ. Middle English plural tyraunz, Middle English–1600s tirant, Middle English terant, teraunt, Middle English–1500s tiraunt, tyraunt, tyraunte, (Middle English tir-, Middle English terawnte, 1500s Scottish tirrant), 1500s tyrante, Middle English– tyrant.
Etymology: < Old French tyrant (12th cent.), tiran (13th cent.), French tyran (14th cent.) = Provençal tiran, Catalan tira, Spanish tirano, Portuguese tyranno, Italian tiranno, < Latin tyrannus, Greek τύραννος. The spelling with final t arose in Old French from association of the ending with that of present participles; compare suffragant as variant of suffragan.
1. One who seizes upon the sovereign power in a state without legal right; an absolute ruler; a usurper. (Chiefly in reference to ancient rulers, and in early use with suggestion of sense 3.)
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun]
tyrantc1330
dictatora1593
Caesar1595
absolute monarch1596
imperator1598
voluntar1650
Mogul1653
sultanist1659
sultan1662
Grand Monarque1699
autocrator1718
despot1755
autocrat1762
sultanship1823
monocrat1848
autarch1865
autarkist1938
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 51 A bastard no kyngdom suld hald Bot if þat he it wan..Of tirant or of Sarazin.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. pr. v. 59 A tyraunt þat was kyng of sysile.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21001 Vnder a tirand hight egeas Bonden on a rod he was.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xxxi. ii Eche Tyraunt was a Conqueroure.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. ix. 197 Sum..Sald and betrasit thar natiue realm and land And tharin brocht a michty tirrand strang.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 39 The thirtie tyrannes had invaded & usurped the governance.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 71 To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liueth still. View more context for this quotation
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 1 Richard the third of that name, King in fact onely, but Tyrant both in Title and Regiment.
1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 47 He..landed his forces, surprised Syracusa, and drave out the Tyranne.
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music vii. 151 This Event happened..thro' the Authority of the thirty Tyrants.
1821 Ld. Byron Isles of Greece in Don Juan: Canto III 50 The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend; That tyrant was Miltiades!
1882 Good Words 23 181/1 In the fifth century before Christ, the tyrant Gelon extended its limits to embrace Acradina.
2. A ruler, governor, prince. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]
waldendeOE
prince?c1225
ordainerc1300
tyranta1340
prefecta1382
rulera1382
wieldera1382
corner of the people1382
lordshipperc1384
governora1393
moderatora1398
wieldinga1400
leader of lawsc1400
regent1415
governailc1440
dominatorc1450
reignera1464
regnanta1500
gubernator1522
despot1562
shepherd1577
swayer1598
Sophy1599
most mastera1616
Govr.1620
Gov.1630
archon1735
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxii. 10 Princes, þat is,..tirauntis of þis warld.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. i. 3 The sonys of Yrael, and of the kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis, or strong men.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 118 The hors..Withe his bellis and boosis brode of gold, Estate of tirauntis the poraile dothe expresse.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 50 Dyomedes..brought with him .xxx. of his tyrants.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. vi. 90 The Troglodites..haue their heade ouer them, whome they call Tiraunte.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Dan. iii. 2 The king sent to cal together the nobles, the magistrates, and judges, dukes, and tyrants, and rulers.
1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War i. xii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 713 Cassius..set tyrants over all Syria.
3. A king or ruler who exercises his power in an oppressive, unjust, or cruel manner; a despot.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > who governs badly > unjust or oppressive
tyrant1297
Nimrod?1548
Tamerlane?1572
subject-monger?1608
sultan1662
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7689 To hom þat wolde is wille do debonere he was & milde & to hom þat wiþsede strong tirant [v.r. tyraund].
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 201 Evere yit it hath so stonde, That god a tirant overladde.
c1471 J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) 453 Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 647 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 47 Nero, þat tyran kene.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 796 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 52 Þe tyrand tuk on hand for to byrne þe gret cite of rome.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 181 Yf y [Cæsar] were a tyraunte, thow sholdyst Say no more so.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 262v Sylla..afterwarde weaxed a cruell tyranne.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xii. 196 Tyrannes..be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iv. 5 A Foe to Tyrants, and my Countries Friend. View more context for this quotation
1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) xviii. 64 Their late Patron..was after his death in their pulpits proclaimed Tyran and worse.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xlix. 167 Do not tyrants..Think men were born for slaves to kings?
1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 145 When Bonaparte put the Duke d'Enghien to death, all Paris felt so much horror..that the throne of the tyrant trembled under him.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 350 The king had never been a tyrant.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. iv. 42 The weak points which had enabled King George III to play the tyrant.
4.
a. Any one who exercises power or authority oppressively, despotically, or cruelly; one who treats those under his control tyrannically.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy > one who
tyrantc1290
Turk1536
Pharaoh1565
tyrannizer1602
domineerer1641
Corsican1739
Napoleon1821
Ozymandias1878
big-sticker1905
Mussolini1926
Hitler1930
c1290 Beket 750 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 128 Ore louerd helpe nouþe seint thomas..A-mong so manie tyraunz for-to come þat weren alle is fon.
c1290 Beket 750 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 753 In þe castel sat þe motinge of þis tyraunz ech-on.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter ii. 9 Þou sall noght be tyraunt til þaim.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 209 Þe abbotes..for grete richesse beeþ proude, and bycomeþ tyrauntz.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 161 A plague vpon the Tyrant that I serue. View more context for this quotation
1751 T. Gray Elegy xv. 8 Some village-Hampden that..The little Tyrant of his fields withstood.
1792 in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1199/1 A man of republican levelling principles, who was the greatest of tyrants to his wife and family.
1817 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. i. 2 A sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvii. 613 It was William who defended him against a tyrant at the school where they were.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert iv The marriage had not proved a happy one... He had been a domestic tyrant.
b. By extension: Any one who acts in a cruel, violent, or wicked manner; a ruffian, desperado; a villain. Hence as a term of reproach. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun]
routerc1300
tyrant1377
ruffy?a1513
ruffiana1525
kempy1525
cut-throat1535
slasher1559
cutter1569
hackster1574
hacker1576
cuttle1600
ruffiano1611
bully rook1673
thug1838
Apache1902
ned1910
rough-up1911
goonda1926
hoon1938
messer1942
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person
tyrant1377
routera1500
termagant1508
ruffy?a1513
ruffiana1525
pander1593
thunderbolt1593
bully1604
ruffiano1611
tearer1633
violentoa1661
boy1662
violent1667
hardhead1774
Arab1788
ring-tailed roarer1828
blood-tub1853
tornado1863
stormer1886
hooligan1898
Apache1902
ned1910
rough-up1911
radge1923
goonda1926
pretty-boy1931
tough baby1932
bad-john1935
hoon1938
shit-kicker1954
tough boy1958
oafo1959
ass-kicker1962
droog1962
trog1983
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. i. 199 Attache þo tyrauntz [1393, tyrauns]..And fettereth fast falsenesse.. And gurdeth of gyles hed.
c1430 Chev. Assigne 84 Tytlye tyrauntes tweyne..by þe byddynge of matabryne a-non þey her hente.
c1440 York Myst. xxxii. 227 Fals tiraunte [Judas], for þi tratoury Þu art worþi to be hanged.
1457 J. Hardyng Chron. in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1912) 745 Your Iustyse of pese darr nought reply Suche tyrauntes that perteyne to any lorde.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 289 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 15 He folawit..Agan þat Terane [sc. Simon Magus] for to stryfe.
c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 528 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 355 His tyranis furth can ryn, & did as he þaim bad in haste.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 13 I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt.
1561 S. Withers tr. Calvin Treat. Relics H vij b The tirauntes that stoned him [Stephen].
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. xix. 86 He suburnit sum blody tyrantis to ly in ane quyit place..awaitand for the slaughter.
c. figurative. Anything of which the action is likened to that of a tyrannical ruler.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy > that which
tyrant?1507
?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 95 That strang vnmercifull tyrand [sc. Death].
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O j A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 98 Lordly loue is such a Tyranne fell.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 85 O dissembling Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant Can tickle where she wounds? View more context for this quotation
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. iii, in Odes 20 Horrour, Tyrant of the throbbing breast.
1796 E. Hamilton Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811) I. 11 When the tyrant pain had a little loosened the fetters of her power.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. viii. 132 Public opinion, the greatest tyrant of these times.
5. Ornithology. Any bird of the family Tyrannidæ; esp. any of several species of the genus Tyrannus (as T. carolinensis, the kingbird n. or bee-martin), noted for attacking and driving off any other bird approaching its nesting place. Also called tyrant-bird n., tyrant-flycatcher n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird)
flycatcher1678
tyrant1731
tyrant-flycatcher1783
tyrant-shrike1809
scissortail1827
tyrant-bird1888
boatbill1951
1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 433 Muscicapa coronâ rubrâ, the Tyrant... He puts to Flight all Birds, both great and small, that come near his Station.
1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 55 The Tyrant... The courage of this little Bird is singular.
a1841 Swainson in Penny Cycl. XXI. 415/2 The lesser tyrants (Tyrannulæ) are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
1869 P. Gillmore tr. G. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds (1870) 538 The Tyrants (Tyrannus) owe their name to their courageous, audacious, and quarrelsome character.
1895 A. Newton Dict. Birds Tyrant or Tyrant-bird, Catesby applied it solely to..the King-bird.., but apparently as much in reference to its bright crown..as to its tyrannical behaviour to other birds.
6.
a. attributive or as adj. That is a tyrant, tyrannical, tyrannous; also, characteristic of a tyrant.
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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
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8005 Milce nas þer mid him [King William] non..Ac as a tirant [v.r. terant] tormentor in speche & ek in dede.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 316 That tirant raviner [Tereus], Whan that sche was in his pouer..Foryat he was a wedded man.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 148 Cirus the king tirant sche tok.
c1480 (a1400) St. Martha 290 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 293 A tyrand man in vord & vark.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 31 Wikkit tyrane Emperouris and princis.
1572 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 140 Thair inordinat proceidingis, tirrant and tressonable attemptattis.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. 74 b Sundry emperors tirants.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 278 Thus must I from the smoake into the smother, From tyrant Duke, vnto a tyrant Brother. View more context for this quotation
1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant xv. 26 Hidden roots, wherewith they might appease Their Tyran'-stomakes.
1691 J. Swift Ode to Athenian Society x, in Suppl. Fifth Vol. Athenian Gaz. 5 The deluding Muse..changes all to Beauty, and the Praise Of that proud Tyrant Sex of Hers.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 136 When tyrant custom had not shackled man.
1775 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 124 A reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxiv. 338 The Tyrant-Boy, whose sway All Hearts acknowledge.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 8 A puppet for these tyrant hypocrites to lift up their hands.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 514 Those basest few who thought to win The tyrant monster's favour.
b. as adj. in predicate. Obsolete. rare.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8615 So cruel ne so tirant ich wene no mon ne say.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 86 He is pruddere, þe more teraunt, þe more ouerledere, þe more cursyd lyvere, for his good.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 212 A man his..Tyraunt & Slow as a bere.
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Aviv He was most tirant & cruell of all emperours.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
tyrant-air n.
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1746 J. Lockman To 1st Promoter Cambrick & Tea-Bills 29 [He] Lords it, with tyrant-airs, o'er beast and man.
tyrant-craft n.
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1812 G. Crabbe Tales xiv. 259 With tyrant-craft, he then was still and calm.
tyrant-killing n.
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1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 18 Among the Jews this custome of tyrant-killing was not unusual.
tyrant-kind n.
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1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 97 Echetus..A tyrant, fiercest of the tyrant kind.
tyrant-murder n.
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1894 F. I. Antrobus tr. L. Pastor Hist. Popes IV. ii. v. 290 This crime was a tyrant-murder of the ancient type.
tyrant period n.
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1898 Q. Rev. July 106 Certain of the Mycenaean types..outlived the Tyrant period.
b.
tyrant-hater n.
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a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 105 He [sc. Milton]..closed the tyrant-hater he begun.
tyrant-killer n.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. T2 Killing many guiltles persons, either for affinity to the Tyrant, or enmitie to the tyrant-killers.
1649 J. Canne Golden Rule 36 Those monuments of tyrant-killers by antiquity were so honored.
tyrant-queller n.
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 115v Harmodius & Aristogiton had been tyrannequellers.
tyrant-slayer n.
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1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. ii. 39 The same Emperour honoured the memory of Thraseas, and Helvidius [etc.], who all were Tyrant-slayers.
1910 P. Gardner in Encycl. Brit. XII. 480/1 The tyrant-slayers, Harmodius and Aristogiton.
tyrant-tamer n.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 134 Thy gracious God, the glorious Tirant-tamer.
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. F4v Nor will we cease, till we haue purchas'd vs The name of Tyrant-tamer through the world.
c.
tyrant-hating adj.
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1866 M. C. Tyler Glimpses Eng. (1898) 146 Two centuries of tyrant-hating Russells.
tyrant-quelling adj.
ΚΠ
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 137 Golden spears With tyrant-quelling myrtle overtwined.
tyrant-ridden adj.
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1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 6 The tyrant-ridden serf.
tyrant-scourging adj.
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a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1101 Those King-correcting, Tyrant-scourging Braves.
d.
tyrant-like adj.
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1558 T. Becon Pomander of Prayer 85 Forgeuing them, and praying for them, which most tirantlike handled thee.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlv. 7) Salomon reigneth not tyrantlike, as many Kynges do.
1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 21 The Prince of darkenesse, who tyrant-like ruleth in the children of disobedience.
C2.
tyrant-bird n. see sense 5.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird)
flycatcher1678
tyrant1731
tyrant-flycatcher1783
tyrant-shrike1809
scissortail1827
tyrant-bird1888
boatbill1951
1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Tyrant-bird.
1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 35 Puma..following and harassing it [the jaguar] as a tyrant-bird harasses an eagle or hawk.
tyrant-chat n. (see quot.).
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1885 Standard Nat. Hist. IV. 468 We may now style various birds tyrant-chats, tyrant-wrens, tyrant-flycatchers, etc., according to the more or less obvious resemblance they may have to the true (oscinine) chats, wrens, or flycatchers.
tyrant-fish n. a West Indian cutlass-fish, Evoxymetopon tæniatus ( Cent. Dict. Suppl., 1909).
tyrant-flycatcher n. species of Tyrannus, resembling, and formerly confused with, the Muscicapidæ and Laniidæ.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird)
flycatcher1678
tyrant1731
tyrant-flycatcher1783
tyrant-shrike1809
scissortail1827
tyrant-bird1888
boatbill1951
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 357 Tyrant Fl[ycatcher]. Size of the Red-backed Shrike, or a trifle bigger... Inhabits Cayenne.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xv. 353 Occasionally..the..plaintive note of the white-tufted tyrant-flycatcher..may be noticed.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 243 The Tyrant Fly-catcher (Tyrannus intrepidus) is one of the migratory visitors of the United States, and often bears the name of ‘King’, as well as ‘Tyrant’.
tyrant-shrike n. = tyrant-flycatcher n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird)
flycatcher1678
tyrant1731
tyrant-flycatcher1783
tyrant-shrike1809
scissortail1827
tyrant-bird1888
boatbill1951
1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 304 Tyrant Shrike..usually measuring about eight inches in length.
1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 133 Tyrant-Shrike..these inhabit the American continent: they..are said to defend their young against the attacks of Eagles.
tyrant-wren n.
ΚΠ
1885Tyrant-wren [see tyrant-chat n.].

Derivatives

ˈtyrant v. (intransitive) to play the tyrant, to tyrannize (also with it).
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (intransitive)] > tyrannize
tyrannizea1513
domineer1591
Nimrodize1614
tyranta1661
sultanize1772
despotize1801
sultan1886
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bucks. 134 This encouraged the Irish Grandees (their O's and Mac's) to Rant and Tyrant it in their respective seignieuries.
ˈtyranting n. (†tyranning)
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun]
threat971
duressc1320
defoulc1330
tyrantry1340
tyrannyc1368
oppressinga1382
overleadinga1382
tyrandisea1382
overlayingc1384
oppression1387
oversettinga1398
thronga1400
overpressingc1450
impressionc1470
tyrantshipc1470
tyrannesse?a1475
aggravation1481
defouling1483
supprissiona1500
oppressmentc1537
conculcation1547
iron hand?1570
thrall1578
tyrannizing1589
tyranting1596
ingrating1599
pressure1616
regrate1621
overpressure1644
slavishness1684
iron heel1798
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vii. sig. F7v Great God of loue,..What glorie, or what guerdon hast thou found In feeble Ladies tyranning so sore? View more context for this quotation
1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 177 Hee persisted in his tyraninge.
ˈtyrantess n. a female tyrant, a tyranness.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > female
empressc1350
tyranness1590
autocratrix1747
autocratrice1758
autocratress1763
tyrantess1890
1890 E. L. Arnold Wonderful Adventures Phra the Phœnician iv I was sorry for the tyrantess.
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