·noun Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
II. Autocracy ·noun Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
III. Autocracy ·noun Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an Autocrat.
IV. Autocracy ·noun The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.