What is "dictatorially"

Dictatorial \Dic`ta*to"ri*al\, a. [Cf. F. dictatorial.]

1. Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.

   Military powers quite dictatorial.
   --W. Irving.

2. Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ly, adv. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ness, n.

adv. In a dictatorial manner.

adv. in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator; "this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues" [syn: autocratically, magisterially]