DESPOTIC ,
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1. Absolute in power; independent of control from men, constitution or laws; arbitrary in the exercise of power; as a despotic prince.
2. Unlimited or unrestrained by constitution, laws or men; absolute; arbitrary; as despotic authority or power.
3. Tyrannical.
Alt. of Despotical
Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
With unlimited power; arbitrarily; in a despotic manner.
Absolute or arbitrary authority.
Illegality Roget’s Thesaurus §964
N. lawlessness, # illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity, arbitrariness, antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry, mob law, lynch law, club law, lydford law, martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum, illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion, smuggling, poaching, simony, outlaw, bad man, v, offend against the law, violate the law, infringe the law, break the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute, ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands, smuggle, run, poach
Adj. illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited, illicit, contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial, extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary, despotic, despotical, corrupt, summary, irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable, expired, invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated
Adv. illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law
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