Dictator

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

II. Dictator ·noun One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

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dictator
dictātor, ōris, m. [dicto, qs. a commander]. I A dictator , the chief magistrate in several Italian ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
dictator
dictātor ōris, m dicto.—In Rome, a dictator, chief magistrate with unlimited power (in great emerg...

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