dictator-likeadv.adj.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xlv. 297 I do not herein take vpon me dictatorlike to pronounce peremptorily.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica To Rdr. sig. A vj a Nor have wee Dictator-like obtruded our conceptions. View more context for this quotation

1745 J. Whaley Coll. Poems & Transl. 34 [He] join'd the glorious Freedom-loving Crew, Fixt to great Cæsar what was Cæsar 's Due, And then, Dictator-like, to Fields withdrew.

1941 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 104 235 The former are suspected of, dictatorlike, abstracting away many of men's most powerful desires.

2003 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 2 Oct. yo2 The mining town is ruled dictatorlike by Hatcher.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xii. 70 Neither yet..depriued theie sound of all his rialtie, which was dictatorlike, before.

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 34 If they only took a Dictatorlike power.

1644 J. Goodwin Θεομαχια 47 Any ambitious or Dictator-like designe.

1680 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 261 A Style and Language more Magisterical, Dictator-like.

1761 Let. to W. Pitt 20 It was too Dictator like to throw up the honourable Place you bore, meerly because your Words were not received like those of an Oracle.

1823 J. Neal Randolph II. 155 I think your manner..is too dictator-like; too arrogant and unqualified.

1859 W. B. Stevens Hist. Georgia II. iv. iii. 155 Mr. Bulloch did not long hold these dictator-like powers; for, before the close of the month, he died.

1931 W. D. Robson-Scott tr. E. Diesel Germany & Germans v. iv. 272 He..has something more friendly and intellectual, more monarchical, about him than the new potentates, who are altogether more dictator-like.

2000 L. Thelen Show Makers 200 Although critics have often cited him as being extreme in his dictator-like approach, one must balance that opinion against the results he produced on stage.