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dictature|dɪkˈteɪtjʊə(r)|
[ad. L. dictātūra the office of a dictator: see -ure. Cf. F. dictature (15th c. in Godef. Suppl.).]
1. = dictatorship.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices ii. (1558) 84 The other who in the dictature had been secretarie. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §29. 40 What strange resolution it was in Lucius Scylla, to resign his Dictature. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. Pref. 10 Autors, who have usurp't a kind of Dictature in Sciences. c1810L. Hunt Blue-Stocking Revels ii. 152, I can't see..why love should await dear good Harriet's dictature! 1867Contemp. Rev. VI. 413 A temporal dictature took the place of the former..combination of the spiritual and temporal powers. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 101 Choosing the rule of few, but wise and good, Rather than mob-dictature.
2. A collective body of dictators.
1759State Papers in Ann. Reg. 203/2 An imperial decree of commission was carried to the dictature against that resolution. 1855M. Bridges Pop. Mod. Hist. 435 Nine individuals were chosen out of it to form a Dictature. |