despotic
adjective
despotical
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a variation of
despotic.
Example Sentences
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And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
From Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
These courts have not before them persons who act, and who justify their acts, by the nature of a despotical and arbitrary power.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Here justice may sometimes direct the arm of the despotical sovereign; but the name of justice is most commonly employed to signify the interest or the caprice of a reigning power.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson
But it is the highest refinement of a despotical government, to rule by simple commands, and to exclude every art but that of compulsion.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson
In the first period of its exercise over men who have acted as members of a free community, it can have only laid the foundation, not completed the fabric, of a despotical policy.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson
