Caesarismn.
/ˈsiːzərɪz(ə)m/ a. The system of absolute government founded by Cæsar; imperialism.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > monarchical government > [noun] > imperial government
imperialism1684
empire1806
Caesarism1857
Kaiserism1863
1857 O. A. Brownson Convert xx. 434 Monarchical absolutism, or what I choose to call modern Cæsarism.
1858 Westm. Rev. Oct. 313 Clumsy eulogies of Cæsarism as incarnate in the dynasty of Bonaparte.
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 1 In Napoleon's Cæsarism there has been no flaw.
1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic vi. 47 The abstract word Cæsarism has been formed to express a kind of Imperial system as established by Cæsar.
1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. ii. 65 Charlemagne..renewing Roman cæsarism.
b. = Erastianism n. at Erastian adj. and n. Derivatives.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > Erastianism > [noun]
Erastianism1681
territorialism1851
regalism1863
Caesarism1876
Caesaro-papism1890
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 460 Cæsarism, or the supremacy of the civil power in spiritual things.
Derivatives
ˈCaesarist n. an imperialist.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > adherents of other principles of government
aristocratical1651
imperialist1800
centralist1826
coercionist1841
Caesarean1869
feudalist1870
Caesarist1875
gynecocrat1893
patriarchalist1923
technocrat1932
presidentialist1935
plutodemocrat1939
psephocrat1966
1875 H. Kingsley No. Seventeen xl. 309 She is not a Cæsarist, because she says that the lady of Chiselhurst had never any taste in ribands.
1883 A. C. Swinburne Victor Hugo in Fortn. Rev. German and Anglo-German Cæsarists.
ˈCaesarize v. (intransitive) to play the Cæsar; transitive to make like Cæsar, or like Cæsar's.
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1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 45 This pow'r..Cæsarizeth ore each Appetite.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xi. lxxxiii. 203 Should Trophies Cæsarize your Power, Should Beauty Helenize your Flower.
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