Dictature

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Office of a dictator; dictatorship. obsolete

    "The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past."

Etymology

From Middle English dictature, from Middle French dictature and its etymon Classical Latin dictātūra. By surface analysis, dictate + -ure.

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