a. [ad. F. autocratique, f. autocrate: see prec. and -IC.] Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an autocrat; absolute in authority, despotic.
1823. Byron, Juan, X. xlix. The fair Czarina’s autocratic crest.
1867. Pearson, Hist. Eng., I. 49. The tax on salt … was farmed out to almost autocratic contractors.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 177. Hamilcar received the command with autocratic powers.
