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tyrannical, a.|tɪ-, taɪˈrænɪkəl|
Also 6–7 tir-.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or befitting an absolute ruler or his government; arbitrary; despotic.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 410 Certain places of thempire wer brought into his tirannical power. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 193 His gouernment is rather tyrannicall then kinglike: for he is absolute Lord of all the demeanes of the kingdome. 1603Daniel Def. Rhime Wks. (1717) 14 Nor is this certain Limit observed in Sonnets, any tyrannical Bounding of the Conceit, but rather a reducing it in girum. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 3 So Tyrannicall an usurpation upon the liberty of mens spirits. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tyrannical, or Tyrannous, belonging to Tyranny, imperious. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. xii. 104 Miletus, after the overthrow of a tyrannical dynasty, was split into two factions.
2. a. Of the nature or character of a tyrant; acting or operating in an oppressive, cruel, or unjustly severe manner.
1538Starkey England i. iv. 115 We must schake of al such tyrannycal custumys and vnresonabyl bandys. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 167 A tyrannicall gouernor. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxv. (1612) 351 A wretch so vitious, insolent, tyrannicall and prowd. 1618D. Dyke Two Treat., Sch. Afflict. 328 Those tygerly and tyrannicall persecutours. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. 1 Cor. vii. 12 Such will be tyrannical and malicious Adversaries. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest v, If you must be tyrannical, Madam, indulge your humour in private. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xii, Like all those who are seldom in command, the master was proportionally tyrannical and abusive. 1872Morley Voltaire i. (1886) 12 A dark and tyrannical superstition.
b. Of, pertaining to, or befitting a tyrant; severely oppressive; despotically harsh or cruel.
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. July 173 In purple, spoken of the Popes and Cardinalles, which vse such tyrannical colours and pompous paynting. 1592tr. Junius On Rev. ix. 13 The first execution done upon the world by the tyrannical powers thereof. 1641More's Rich. III Ded., The troublesome and tyrannicall government of usurping Richard the third. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxi. 248 They shall be chastised by the hand of the Most High God for the crimes of their tyrannicall lives. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 290 As to the king of Prussia, his conduct in Poland was the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be conceived. 1812Scott Let. to Southey 4 June, in Lockhart, I am always prepared to expect the most tyrannical proceedings from professed demagogues. 1884Pae Eustace 23 To his inferiors, his behaviour was most tyrannical. |
