tyrant
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noun- 1.
(historical)(historical, Ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
- 2.
(obsolete)Any monarch or governor.
Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
- 3.
A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
- 4.
(broadly)(by extension) Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
[…] a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
- 5.
(broadly)(by extension) A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
- 6.
The tyrant birds, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
The lesser tyrants (Tyrannulae) are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
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adjective- 1.
(uncommon)Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To tyrannize.
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From Middle English tyraunt, tiraunt, tyrant, tyrante, from Old French tyrant, from the addition of a terminal -t to tiran (cp. tyran) via a back-formation related to the development of French present participles out of the Latin -ans form, from Latin tyrannus (despot), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (usurper, monarch, despot), of uncertain origin.