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† deˈspotical, a. Obs.
Also 8 -all.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= despotic.
1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 68 Free'd themselves whollie from that Despotical kind of government. 1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 53 Under the despoticall rule of the Monarch. 1690Locke Govt. ii. xv. §172 Despotical Power is an absolute, arbitrary Power one Man has over another. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. (1869) I. 326 Of the most free as well as of the most despotical [governments]. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. iv. iii. 183 Despotical speaking and acting of the clergy. |