Autocrator

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Au`toc´ra`tor

An autocrat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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As Stuttard recounts: "They voted to make him general-in-chief, strategos autocrator, with supreme command on land and sea, the most powerful man in Athens....

RUINED BY HIS OWN GLORY

(5) OED, 1: 573 (autocrator is given as autocrat, used of Russia in 1789-96; and as autocrat, used of the king of England in Hanover as elector, in 1853).

Aleksandr Il'ich Filiushkin, Tituly russkikh gosudarei

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