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Dictator
Dictator Dic*ta"tor, n. [L.]
1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims
authoritatively for the direction of others. --Locke.
2. One invested with absolute authority; especially, a
magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and
invested with unlimited power.
Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a
pope, over our language. --Macaulay.
Meaning of Dictator from wikipedia
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- bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator for life" (Latin: dictator perpetuo). His populist and authoritarian reforms angered...
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