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- English Word Tyrannic Definition Alt. of Tyrannical
- English Word Tyrannical Definition Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.
- English Word Tyrannicidal Definition Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.
- English Word Tyrannicide Definition The act of killing a tyrant.
- English Word Tyrannicide Definition One who kills a tyrant.
- English Word Tyrannish Definition Like a tyrant; tyrannical.
- English Word Tyrannize Definition To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.
- English Word Tyrannize Definition To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.
- English Word Tyrannized Definition of Tyrannize
- English Word Tyrannizing Definition of Tyrannize
- English Word Tyrannous Definition Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.
- English Word Tyranny Definition The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
- English Word Tyranny Definition Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
- English Word Tyranny Definition Severity; rigor; inclemency.
- English Word Tyrant Definition An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
- English Word Tyrant Definition Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
- English Word Tyrant Definition Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.
- English Word Tyrant Definition To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
- English Word Tyre Definition Curdled milk.
- English Word Tyre Definition Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.