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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: autocracy n 1: a political system governed by a single individual [syn: {autarchy}] [ant: {democracy}] 2: a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
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