tyrannic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TYRAN'NIC TYRAN'NICAL, adjective Pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; arbitrary; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; as a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power. Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Th' oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst.
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