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  • English Word Autochthon Definition One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.
  • English Word Autochthon Definition That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.
  • English Word Autochthonal Definition Alt. of Autochthonous
  • English Word Autochthones Definition of Autochthon
  • English Word Autochthonism Definition The state of being autochthonal.
  • English Word Autochthonous Definition Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
  • English Word Autochthony Definition An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.
  • English Word Autoclave Definition A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.
  • English Word Autocracies Definition of Autocracy
  • English Word Autocracy Definition Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
  • English Word Autocracy Definition Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
  • English Word Autocracy Definition Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
  • English Word Autocracy Definition The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
  • English Word Autocrat Definition 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).
  • English Word Autocrat Definition One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
  • English Word Autocratic Definition Alt. of Autocratical
  • English Word Autocratical Definition Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
  • English Word Autocrator Definition An autocrat.
  • English Word Autocratorical Definition Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute.
  • English Word Autocratrix Definition A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.
  • English Word Autocratship Definition The office or dignity of an autocrat.
  • English Word Autodidact Definition One who is self-taught; an automath.
  • English Word Autodynamic Definition Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.
  • English Word Autofecundation Definition Self-impregnation.
  • English Word Autogamous Definition Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
  • English Word Autogamy Definition Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
  • English Word Autogeneal Definition Self-produced; autogenous.
  • English Word Autogenesis Definition Spontaneous generation.
  • English Word Autogenetic Definition Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.
  • English Word Autogenous Definition Self-generated; produced independently.