The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tyrannic \Ty*ran"nic\ (?; 277), Tyrannical \Ty*ran"nic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly
severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel;
arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master;
tyrannical government. ``A power tyrannical.''
--Shak.
Our sects a more tyrannic power assume.
--Roscommon.
The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster] -- Ty*ran"nic*al*ly, adv. --
Ty*ran"nic*al*ness, .
Wiktionary
a. (context dated English) tyrannical. alt. (context dated English) tyrannical.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or associated with or resembling a dictatorship; "tyrannical suppression of liberty" [syn: tyrannical]
Usage examples of "tyrannic".
Of what use is it to dethrone kings and by what right do we jeer at those who die for their masters, if it is only to put tyrannic entities in their places, which we adorn with their tinsel?
Bastille, and my father led me to contemplate this fallen fortress of the tyrannic power.
A certain philosophy, full of consolation, and in perfect accord with religion, pretends that the state of dependence in which the soul stands in relation to the senses and to the organs, is only incidental and transient, and that it will reach a condition of freedom and happiness when the death of the body shall have delivered it from that state of tyrannic subjection.
She felt abstract terms were called for in the face of such tyrannic grandeur.
Emulate him, who in his Undertaking fought and destroyed the Book of the Kalends and thus the tyrannic rule of fate itself.