Thesaurus: autocracy

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1. n. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
2. n. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
3. n. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
4. n. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
5. n. a political system governed by a single individual
6. n. a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
7. 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South. 2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. 3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow. 4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.
8. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctivepowers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vitalprinciple. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.
9. n:100 n. a political system governed by a single individual n. a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual