Autocrator


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Au`toc´ra`tor


n.1.An autocrat.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(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).
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