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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"

Absolutism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...V, ruled 1519 – 1556) as "despots" enables us to trace the roots of the...Dictionaries follow Motley's lead: a despot is a "ruler with absolute power" or a "tyrant." Making despot, tyrant, and absolute monarch synonymous...
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...
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...
Enlightenment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...proposed that their theories be implemented by "enlightened despots" —rulers who would impose reform by authoritarian...Roman Emperor Joseph II was the prototype of the enlightened despot; others were Frederick II of Prussia, Catherine II of Russia...
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...
Latin Empire of Constantinople
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Greek emperors of Nicaea (see Nicaea, empire of ) and despots of Epirus (see Epirus, despotate of ), by the Bulgars under...and by Greek resistance. In 1222, Thessalonica fell to the despot of Epirus. By 1224 the Nicaean Emperor John III had recovered...
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...
Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaivich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...with the work of Pirandello . Evreinov's theories were swept aside by the Socialist Realism of the Soviet era. Two of his short plays were translated and published in Five Russian Plays (1916) as A Merry Death and The Beautiful Despot .
Beale, Dorothea
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Beale improved the calibre of the teaching staff and broadened the syllabus, with dramatic results. ‘A benevolent despot’ in the words of DNB , she enforced a rule of silence, hoping to eliminate what she considered the female vice of...
King and I, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...arrives with her young son in Siam to teach the children of the King ( Yul Brynner), she finds the monarch something of a despot, but she is drawn to his many children (through many wives) and puts up with him to a point. But when the King goes to punish...

Dictionary entries related to "despot"

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.
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.
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...
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...
Brood
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms ...hawks; of heath fowl, 1805; of hens, 1486; of kittens; of lies, 1798; of oysters [in second year], 1862; of petty despots, 1867; of poisons, 1719; of presbyterians, 1706; of salmon, 1389; of serpents, 1697; of silkworms, 1760; of time...
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...
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...
Portugal
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...In the wake of the disastrous Lisbon earthquake (1755) the dynamic minister Pombal exercised the powers of an enlightened despot. During the NAPOLEONIC WARS the Prince Regent John ( King John VI from 1816), together with the Braganza royal family, fled...
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...
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...

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.
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.
dictator
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus dictator • noun  a regime that has survived under one dictator for more than forty years synonyms : autocrat, absolute ruler, despot, tyrant, oppressor, autarch.
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.
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.
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 Pocket Thesaurus of Current English tyrant • noun   synonyms : despot, autocrat, dictator, absolute ruler, authoritarian, oppressor, martinet, slave driver, bully.
oppressor
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus oppressor • noun  the rebels overthrew their oppressors in a bloody coup synonyms : persecutor, tyrant, despot, autocrat, dictator, subjugator, tormentor, slave driver, taskmaster.

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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...
Down With Despots
Magazine article from: The World Today; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Down With Despots Breaking The Real Axis Of Evil: How To...dictatorships; and Mark Palmer is explicit that despots can and must all fall down. An American...confer legitimacy on schemes to eject despots. Governments and citizens of existing...
Despots bring only misery to the people.(News)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa); 1/20/2009; 700+ words ; ...ongoing practice of defending African despots on the basis of their being African misses...does the excuse that if Mugabe and other despots such as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir...suffer the policies and actions of these despots - dictators who know that they will always...
Despot McNaughton, Maria
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/4/2006; 431 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...
Chavez on despots' term-cutting edge; But sinking oil revenues may provide a slippery power base.(OPED)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/19/2009; 700+ words ; ...must be the envy of aspiring despots the world over today. On Sunday...you are to be governed by a despot. But as easy as it is giving...programs see any shortfalls. Despots like those running Venezuela...justify to their people the despots' hold on power - enemies usually...
Twilight of the despots: Asian-authoritarians and the need for enlightenment.
Magazine article from: Harvard International Review; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...A survey around Asia reveals a body of despots reduced to ghosts of their former selves...views of Merrill Lynch. The number of despots in Asia will continue to shrink. The...ineluctable socioeconomic forces that the despots themselves have unleashed. All Asian...
Little hope left for despots.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 4/11/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...no wrinkly egomaniacal despot left to say anything...living facility for retired despots. The best story I ever...White, another deposed despot, come to think of it...now a new generation of despots steps forward toward the...
Despots Pretending to Spot and Shame Despots
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/17/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...in Geneva. It features the sordid ritual of the world's despots and tyrants scramb-ling to join a commission that is tasked with investigating and condemning the world's despots and tyrants. Although not a judicial body, the commission...