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despotism
despotism government by an absolute ruler unchecked by effective constitutional limits to his power. In Greek usage, a despot was ruler of a household and master of its slaves. The title was applied to gods and, by derivation, to the quasi-divine rulers of the Middle East. In the Byzantine Empire, ... Read more
Domitian
Domitian (Titus Flavius Domitianus) , AD 51-AD 96, Roman emperor (AD 81-AD 96), son of Vespasian . Although intended as the heir to his older brother, Titus , he was given no important posts. On Titus' death he succeeded to the throne and proved himself at once proud and more absolutist than his... Read more
empire of Nicaea
empire of Nicaea 1204-61. In 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade set up the Latin Empire of Constantinople, but the Crusaders' influence did not extend over the entire Byzantine Empire. Several Greek successor states, chief among them the empire of Nicaea, sprang up (see also Epirus, despotate o... Read more
Richard Hildreth
Richard Hildreth , 1807-65, American historian, b. Deerfield, Mass. From 1832 to 1838 he was the leading editorial writer for the Boston Daily Atlas. In addition to writing controversial pamphlets and contributing to magazines, Hildreth wrote Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies (1840); a discus... Read more
Justinian II
Justinian II (Justinian Rhinotmetus), 669-711, Byzantine emperor (685-95, 705-11), son and successor of Constantine IV. He successfully invaded Arab territory but lost the advantage through a truce that ceded much of Asia Minor to the Arabs. His extravagance and despotism and his ministers' extorti... Read more
Ptolemy VII
Ptolemy VII (Ptolemy Physcon) , d. 116 BC, king of ancient Egypt (145-116 BC), of the Macedonian dynasty, brother of Ptolemy VI . He is also called Ptolemy Euergetes II. He was coruler with his brother and his brother's wife from 170-164 BC Trouble resulted in a settlement by which Ptolemy Physco... Read more
Jean Jacques Dessalines
Jean Jacques Dessalines , c.1758-1806, emperor of Haiti (1804-6), born a slave. A shrewd general, he served under Toussaint L'Ouverture in the wars that liberated Haiti. His barbaric cruelty against the mulattoes whom Toussaint was unable to control led to a bitter struggle with the mulatto leader... Read more
Antonio Guzmán Blanco
Antonio Guzmán Blanco , 1829-99, president of Venezuela, a caudillo who dominated the nation from 1870 to 1888. Son of the founder of the Liberal party, Guzmán Blanco was a magnetic and energetic figure with considerable diplomatic and administrative ability. He became a general in the... Read more
Hyksos
Hyksos [Egyptian,=rulers of foreign lands], invaders of ancient Egypt , now substantiated as the XV-XVIII dynasties. They were a northwestern Semitic (Canaanite or Amorite) people who entered Egypt sometime between 1720 and 1710 BC and subdued the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom. They used Avaris-T... Read more
Montezuma
Montezuma or Moctezuma , 1480?-1520, Aztec emperor (c.1502-1520). He is sometimes called Montezuma II to distinguish him from Montezuma I (ruled 1440-69), who carried on conquests around Tenochtitlán . His reign was marked by incessant warfare, and his despotic rule caused grave unrest. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "despot"

despotism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...limits to his power. In Greek usage, a despot was ruler of a household and master of...Middle East. In the Byzantine Empire, despot was a title of honor of the emperors and...known as benevolent despotism. However, despot is now a term of opprobrium. Bibliography...
despotate of Epirus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the north to the Gulf of Pátrai in the south. In 1222 the despot of Epirus took Salonica (Thessaloníki) from the Latins and claimed the title despot of Thessalonica. For a time the despotate of Epirus was a rival of the...
Absolutism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...term enlightened despotism is used instead. Dictionaries follow Motley's lead: a despot is a "ruler with absolute power" or a "tyrant." Making despot, tyrant, and absolute monarch synonymous concepts, however, completely misrepresents...
Gustavus III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was king of Sweden from 1771 to 1792. He was an enlightened despot and a philosophe. Born on Jan. 24, 1746, Gustavus III was...the back. He died on March 29. Gustavus III, enlightened despot and philosophe, modeled his court on Versailles. He promoted...
Michael VIII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...young emperor's guardian; he was then given the title of Despot, and, by the beginning of 1259, he was finally proclaimed...the Latin prince of Achaea, and Michael's Greek rival, the despot of Epirus. Then, in July 1261, by unexpected good luck...
Constantine XI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...towns. His eldest brother, who had always favored him, became Emperor John VIII in 1425. In 1427 Manuel's second son, Despot Theodore II of the Morea, announced his decision to resign his power in this important Peloponnesian territory. The Emperor...
Frederick II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Great, was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. He combined the qualities of a warrior king with those of an enlightened despot. The eldest son of Frederick William I of Prussia and of Princess Sophie Dorothea of Hanover, Frederick II was born in Berlin...
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...part is a melodramatic biography of the caudillo Facundo, who symbolizes the barbarism of the pampas and the tyranny of the despot Rosas. The third part is a program of social and political reorganization after the overthrow of the dictator. From 1845 to...
Victor Amadeus II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Victor Amadeus II Victor Amadeus II (1666-1732) was Duke of Savoy, king of Sicily, and king of Sardinia. An enlightened despot, he brought good government, justice, and prosperity to his domain and won for his people freedom from foreign domination...
William I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Reformation, were also aggravated. Although not as conservative as his father, William ruled as a restored enlightened despot rather than as the liberal monarch his subjects desired. In 1830, the year which ended the restoration regime in France...

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despot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology despot lord, prince, ruler XVI; absolute ruler, tyrant XVIII. — F. despote , earlier † despot — medL. despota — Gr. despótēs master, lord. So despotic XVII, despotism XVIII.
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Chicago Institute for the best part of a quarter century. As an administrator he was regarded as authoritarian, albeit a benign despot, while he and the analytic staff functioned as an oligarchy. Alexander's research, for which he secured large grants from...
Terror
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...So many thousands were put to death on a daily basis that the appalling became indistinguishable from the ordinary. From a despot's point of view, the advantage gained from terror tactics is that he has under him a cowed, servile population; the disadvantage...
conservatism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Conservatives typically favour: constitutional government as a way of preserving authority without concentrating it in the hands of a despot or dictator; an ordered or ranked society in which people know their proper place and defer to those placed above them in the...
Contact and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...be." Some have said that recognizing the other is the Supreme Good, "because where love awakens, the self, that somber despot, dies" (Giordano Bruno, cited in 1911c [1910]). Bernard This See also: ; ; ; ; ; Totem and Taboo . Bibliography Freud...
State of Being in Love
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...encounter the subject is constantly forced to confront the necessary death of the ego. "Where love is awakened, ego, that somber despot dies," writes David, repeating Freud's quote of Jalal el Din (1911c). One of the basic premises of David's book is...
Rajk, Laszlo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Shortly afterwards, he became one of the first victims of Stalin's purges, despite his previous unstinting loyalty to the despot. He was moved to the Foreign Ministry and replaced by Kádár , and on 19 May 1949 the show trials had been...
sultan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology sultan Muslim sovereign XVI; despot, tyrant XVII; sweet-scented annual, Centaurea moschata and C. suaveolens . — F. sultan or medL. sultā...
Tamerlane
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...ancestor of the Mogul dynasty in India. He is also known as Tamburlaine , the spelling used by Marlowe in Tamburlaine the Great (1590). From the late 16th century, Tamerlane has been referred to as the type of a savage conqueror or despot.
Solomon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Israel from c. 970 BC, when he succeeded his father David . The impression given in 1 Kgs. 1–11 is of an oriental despot, honoured for his wealth and wisdom. This reputation was responsible for the later attribution to him of the Books of Proverbs...

Thesaurus entries related to "despot"

despot
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus despot • noun  when one despot is deposed for another, the cycle of repression continues synonyms : tyrant, oppressor, dictator, absolute ruler, totalitarian, autocrat; informal slave driver.
dictator
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English dictator • noun   synonyms : absolute ruler, despot, autocrat, tyrant, oppressor.
autocrat
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus autocrat • noun  the former autocrat could be banned from traveling abroad while the investigation proceeds synonyms : absolute ruler, dictator, despot, tyrant.
ogre/ogress
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ogre/ogress • noun   1. a mythical ogre synonyms : monster, giant/giantess, troll, bogeyman, bugbear, demon, devil.   2. ruled by an ogre synonyms : frightening person, fiend, beast, tyrant, despot, barbarian, brute, villain, sadist.
tyrant
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus tyrant • noun  dare we envision a world free from tyrants? synonyms : dictator, despot, autocrat, authoritarian, oppressor; slave driver, martinet, bully, megalomaniac.
authoritarian
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...strict, rigid, inflexible; informal bossy, iron-fisted. antonyms: democratic, liberal. • noun  the army is dominated by authoritarians synonyms : autocrat, despot, dictator, tyrant; disciplinarian, martinet.
disciplinarian
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus disciplinarian • noun  Mr. Chips was the antithesis of the stern disciplinarian that the boys had come to expect synonyms : martinet, hard taskmaster, authoritarian, stickler for discipline; tyrant, despot, ramrod; informal slave driver.
oppressor
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English oppressor • noun   synonyms : tyrant, despot, autocrat, subjugator, persecutor, bully, iron hand, slave driver, taskmaster, scourge, dictator, tormentor, torturer.

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Despot i zrtva.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2000; 700+ words ; Dobrilo Nenadic. Despot i zrtva. Belgrade. Prosveta. 1998. 203 pages. id 65293068...in some of his earlier novels. He places his latest novel, Despot i 6rtva (Despot and Victim), in the despotate of Serbia in the fifteenth century...
Does Egypt still need a 'just despot'?
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 2/13/2009; 700+ words ; ...process. "El Mustabid El Adel" (The Just Despot) by Mohamed Afifi, a history professor...democracy and firm rule. The term 'just despot' was first coined by the pioneering turn...to explaining the concept of the 'just despot' from the perspective of Syrian politician...
Despot `haven' needed
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/16/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...World has copies of various countries, "Despot World" could have a plastic Port-au...for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini). Each despot would rule over the retinue he brought...the borders of his allotted portion of Despot World. Since the deposed dictator would...
Despot McNaughton, Maria
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/4/2006; 439 words ; Despot McNaughton, Maria Beloved wife, mother...grandmother, sister and aunt, Maria McNaughton Despot, age 77, passed away peacefully January...in 1955, married surviving spouse Carl Despot in 1981 and resided in Crandon until her...
Judge Calls Microsoft a "Benevolent Despot".
News Wire article from: Computergram International; 6/23/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...refered to the company as a "benevolent despot," alluding to Microsoft's dominant...retorted: "You may have a benevolent despot or monoploy." "No, Schmalensee answered...firm begins to think like a benevolent despot and is not protected by barriers to entry...
Qld: Beattie acting like a despot over Speaker - Opp
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 4/1/2005; 243 words ; ...01-2005 Qld: Beattie acting like a despot over Speaker - Opp The Queensland opposition...Premier PETER BEATTIE is acting like a despot over his decision to revise accountability...He says Mr BEATTIE's acting like a despot and the premier does not own the parliament...
Qld: Beattie acting like a despot over Speaker - Oppn
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Mercenaries aimed to topple oil-rich despot Equatorial Guinea The inside story of the ties that bind President Obiang and powerful American interests
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/14/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...welcomed President Obiang, a confirmed if not convicted corrupt despot, to the White House. He may be a despot, but as presider over an oil-rich state, he is their despot. The sight and smell of oil is everywhere palpable in the port of...
BUTCHER IN A BODYBAGH; Brutal death of a despot.. Saddam Hussein 1937 - 2006 Hangmen take just one second to send him to hell.(News)
Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 12/31/2006; 700+ words ; ...the hangmen danced gleefully around the despot's body as it was left to swayed on the...Islam's holy book the Koran, the fallen despot shouted his last words: 'Iraq without...lost close relatives in purges by the despot. Mr al-Rubaie said: "It's a very...
DESPOT MEASURES
Magazine article from: Artforum; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; DESPOT MEASURES Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novel skewers an African big man WIZARD OF...back," shout the demonstrators gathered to oppose Aburiria's reigning despot, known only as the Ruler. The country's chief antigovernment faction...