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autocrat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autocrat \Au"to*crat\, n. [Gr. ?; ? self + ? strength, ? strong: cf. F. autocrate. See Hard, a.]
An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).
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One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
The autocrat of the breakfast table.
--Holmes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from French autocrate, from Greek autokrates "ruling by oneself, absolute, autocratic," from autos- "self" (see auto-) + kratia "rule," from kratos "strength, power" (see -cracy). First used by Robert Southey, with reference to Napoleon. An earlier form was autocrator (1789), used in reference to the Russian Czars. Earliest form in English is the fem. autocratress (1762).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An absolute ruler with infinite power 2 A title borne by some such Monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia
WordNet
Wikipedia
An autocrat is the ruler of an autocracy, but the term may also refer to:
- Autocracy, a system of government in which one person has absolute power and is unaccountable to the law or the citizenry
- Auster Autocrat, a 1940s British single-engined three-seat high-wing touring monoplane
- Autocrat, LLC, a company based in Rhode Island, United States
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- The Autocrats, a Finnish political satire TV series
- Autokrator, a Greek epithet applied to an individual who exercises absolute power, unrestrained by superiors
The Autocrat was a British car manufacturer operating from 1913 to 1926. The company operated from premises in the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham. Unusually for thr time the company seems to have been run by two women, Ivy Rogers and Miss Howell.
The first cars in 1913 were cyclecars powered at first by Peugeot and later by JAP air cooled V-twin engines. The Peugeot engine was mounted with its cylinders in a "fore and aft" layout and drove the rear axle via a chain but the JAP version had the engine mounted across the chassis with a chain drive to a separate gearbox and shaft to the back axle. In spite of being air cooled both cars had a dummy radiator.
The cyclecar was quickly joined by a light car with a 1098 cc four cylinder Chapuis-Dornier engine and shaft drive to a three speed gearbox. Production of the V-twins stopped in 1914.Some car production seems to have continued into World War I and in 1915 a 1340 cc Coventry Simplex engined car was listed.
In 1919 a new range of 10-12hp cars was introduced with engines from a variety of makers including Meadows, Coventry Simplex and Dorman. Capacities varied from 1500cc to 2000cc. Drive was to the rear axle via a three of four speed gearbox and torque tube. The suspension used semi elliptic leaf springs all round. Autocrat build their own coachwork to a very high standard but the price was high at £875 in 1920. Electric starting was introduced in 1923 and a closed body was offered alongside the open cars. A detachable hard top was also available for some models and a sports version with the chassis lowered by 3.5 inches was listed.
The company was taken over by Calthorpe in 1926 and the factory was closed.
Usage examples of "autocrat".
But it is part of the task of the Autocrat to know when to step outside the everyday.
No, that had been some history article, about the last Autocrat but two.
The Autocrat giving up his name was a bizarre and inexplicable tradition.
In the normal course of events, Sianna would have as much chance of seeing Wolf Bernhardt as she would of getting the Autocrat of Ceres to come to lunch.
She had always regarded herself as a pretty fair player, but the Autocrat was head and shoulders above her.
None too surprisingly, the Naked Purple movement had never gotten along well with the Autocrat of Ceres.
The Autocrat had every right to see the last act of what he had helped to set in motion.
I, um, happened to notice when I was waiting for a representative of the Autocrat to contact me.
Let us go unto the Autocrat, and he shall listen to your tale and scry why you truly are here.
But Navdaq turned away, the conversation over, and resumed its trek to the Autocrat, leading Jane way, Neelix, and Tuvok himself while the Vulcan began finally to come to peace inside himself, suppressing the powerful emotions behind the mask of logic and restoring his natural equilibrium.
Beyond the Autocrat, or behind the away team, Neelix could see little because of the intense lighting.
The Autocrat began to make a peculiar noise that sounded like the death gurgle of an animal dying of pain and thirst.
In all likelihood, the Autocrat had saved dozens of lives this day by blotting out the leaders in this pointless fight.
Having disposed of the last court case for the day, the Autocrat stood up from his courtroom and hurried toward his private operations room.
Core Cracker exists, or if the Autocrat would agree to release it even if it did.