AUTOCRAT

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 3
In Politics, a word derived from the Greek avroKparwp, sole, or independent governor. This title of Autocrat or was giten to A then i an generals invested with full command by the republic; also to envoys, in which case it corresponded in meaning with the barbarous Latin word plenipotentiaries. In modern political phraseology,the term autocrat, signifying a sovereign po e ed of absolute power, is usually confined to the emperor of Ru ia. [s. 124]
Readham'da tam maddeyi gor →