Значения термина despotical на английском

The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great; that of a Tartar khan altogether despotical.

Whether oppression, injustice, and cruelty, are the only evils which attend on despotical government, may be considered apart.

Oppression and cruelty are not always necessary to despotical government; and even when present, are but a part of its evils.

And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.

His wooing had been of the most despotical and patronizing kind; not the kind that a proud girl would have put up with.

But it is the highest refinement of a despotical government, to rule by simple commands, and to exclude every art but that of compulsion.

Such a council can command obedience only by the military force with which they are accompanied; and their government is, therefore, necessarily military and despotical.

Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases.