? Obs. [a. Gr. αὐτοκράτωρ one’s own master, an absolute ruler.] = AUTOCRAT (and in earlier use).
1789–96. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 88. The emperor, or autocrator of Russia.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), I. vi. 213. That our own king was monarch and autocrator in Hanover.
