Dic*ta"tor (?), n. [L.]
1.
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Locke.
2.
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language.
Macaulay.
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