01 n. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
pl.
Autocracies
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Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.“The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy.” — South.
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2.
Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
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3.
Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
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4.
The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.(Med.)