autocracy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: autocracy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for autocracy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
autocracy n a political system governed by a single individual [syn: autocracy, autarchy] a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Autocracy \Autoc"racy\, 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.