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despotic definition

des·potic (des pät′ik)

adjective

of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
also despotical des·pot′i·cal

Etymology: Fr despotique < Gr despotikos

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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