Autocracy

Definition of Autocracy

Au`toc´ra`cy

n.	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.
	4.	(Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

Related Words

absolutism, autarchy, authoritarianism, Caesarism, commonwealth, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, form of government, monarchy, monocracy, one-man rule, political system, republic, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny

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