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autocrasy

Autocracy \Au*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Autocracies. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autocratie. See Autocrat.]

  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.