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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dictator n 1: someone who rules unconstrained by law [syn: {potentate}] 2: behaves like a tyrant [syn: {authoritarian}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
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