dicta to riant (diktat or i an)

[ A dictator i an power, more accommodate to the first production of things. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 347. dictatorship (dik-ta'tor-ship), n. [ dictator + -ship .] 1. The office or dignity of a dictator; the term of a dictator's office. This is the solemnest title they can confer under the princedom, being indeed a kind of dictatorship . Sir H. Wotton. 2. Absolute authority; dogmatism. This is that perpetual dictatorship which is exercised by Lucretius, though often in the wrong. Dryden. dictatorył (dik'ta-tō-ri), a . [= Sp. Pg. dicta torio , dictator i us , of or belonging to a diet at or, dictator , a dictator: see dictator .] Diet a to rial. Our English, the language of men ever famous and fore most in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished. Milton , Areopagitica.