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An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

ing to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self- government.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

et, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

dget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

ion formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to

A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government. There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.

, ambitious, and little minds are ever forming cabals. Factions belong especially to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes". Crabb.

A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

r prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people. [Religion] is . . . calculated for our benefit. Abp. Tillotson.

The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.