Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dictatorial.

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  • adjective Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.

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  • adjective dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial

Etymologies

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Latin dictatorius.

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Examples

  • Both men stuck with a few maybe a bit too long Rumsfeld was the man to transform a military from Cold War to regional skirmishes, and to topple a dictatory, but was a fiasco with an insurgency - Bush just couldn't let him go.

    George's Diner. Ann Althouse 2008

  • I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption

    Areopagitica 2007

  • I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption

    Areopagitica 2007

  • When religious figures have absolute dictatory power over science, health, and foreign policy?

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » An Observation 2005

  • Certain of the directors were inclined to criticise other directors and to be somewhat dictatory as to how the farmers 'business should be conducted.

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • Act through Parliament which declared that nothing contained in the dictatory law of Queen Anne gave the privilege of a natural born subject to any child, born or to be born abroad, whose father at the time of his or her birth either stood attainted of high treason, or was in the actual service of a foreign state in enmity to the crown of

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • His dictatory air drew from her another sad little laugh.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Is it possible that any thing can be more just, than to inquire rigorously into the rights, sedulously to examine the foundations, to try by every known test, the stability of doctrines, that involve in their operations, consequences of such colossal magnitude; that embrace, in their dictatory mandates, matters of such high behest; that implicate the eternal felicity of such countless millions in the vortex of their action?

    The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

  • No nationalism is pure, no movement is perfect, no state is ideal, but today, Zionism persists as a menace, a militaristic and dictatory movement to me and to most Palestinians.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

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