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puhekieltä A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
(circa) (w), w:Mannyngs Chronicle|Chronicle'', 51:
- A bastard no kingdom kyngdom should suld hold hald but Bot if that þat he it want wan... Of tirant or of Saracen Sarazin.
(circa) (w) translating (w), (w), III v 59:
- A tyraunt that þat was king kyng of Sicily sysile.
(circa) (w), (w), III iii 71:
- To prove proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liveth liueth still.
1980, Michel Austin & al., Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece, 142:
- The reappearance of tyranny in the 4th century BC had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.
1996, Roger Boesche, Theories of Tyranny, from Plato to Arendt, 4:
- Ancient Greek tyrannies appeared once more in great numbers with the breakdown of the polis in the period from the fourth to the second centuries BC. These later tyrannies tended to rely on a more narrow class base and to use a brutal military rule, and thus writers could use the words tyrant and tyranny, with their modern connotations of evil and cruelty, to describe them accurately.
puhekieltä Any monarch or governor.
(circa) Richard Rolle, Psalter, XXXII 10:
- Princes, that þat is,... tirauntis of this þis world warld.
1382, (w), w:Book of Daniel|Dan. I 3:
- The sons sonys of Israel Yrael, and of the king kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis.
1737, William Whiston translating (w), (w), I xii §2:
- Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
1297, w:Robert_of_Gloucester_(historian) Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle, 7689:
- To whom hom that þat would wolde his is wille do debonaire debonere he was & milde & to whom hom that þat withsaid wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.
(circa) John Fortescue, Works, 453:
- when Whan a king Kyng ruleth rulith his realm Realme only onely to his own profit profytt, and not to the good of his subjects Subgetts, he is ys a Tyraunte.
1587, Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, A woorke concerning the trewnesse of the christian religion, translating Philippe De Mornay, XII 196:
- Tyrannes...be but God Gods scourges which he will cast into the fire fyre when he hath done with them.
(circa) (w), (w), V iv 5:
- I am the son Sonne of Marcus Cato, hoe.A Foe to Tyrants, and my country's|Countries Friend.
1888, James Bryce, The American Commonweath, I iv 42:
- They viz., the Framers of the American Constitution held England to be the freest and best-governed country in the world, but were resolved to avoid the weak points which had enabled w:George III of England|King George III. to play the tyrant, and which rendered English liberty, as they thought, far inferior to that which the constitutions of their own States secured.
puhekieltä Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
(circa) in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128:
- our Ore lord louerd helpe there nouþe saint seint thomas : for other oþur friend frend nath he none non, / among A-mong so many manie tyraunz for-to come: that þat wards weren alle is few fon!
(circa) (w), (w), II ii 161:
- A plague upon vpon the Tyrant that I serve serue
1817, Mary Mitford in Alfred L'Estrange, The life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870), II i 2
- (..) a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
puhekieltä A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
1377, William Langland, (w), I 199:
- attach Attache þo tyrauntz...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And guardeth gurdeth of guiles gyles hid hed.
(circa) William Dunbar, Poems, 95:
- That strange strang unmerciful vnmercifull tyrand Death.
1526, (w), w:First Timothy|1 Tim. I 13:
- I was a blasphemer blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt.
1528, Thomas Paynell translating Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano, Regimen Sanitatis Salerni:
- A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
(circa) (w), (w), I i 85:
- O dissembling curtesy Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant Can tickle where she wounds?
1847, A. Helps, Friends in Council, I viii 132:
- Public opinion, the greatest tyrant of these times.
The (vern), members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
1731, Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, I 55:
- The Tyrant... The courage of this little Bird is singular.
(circa) Swainson, Penny Cyclopaedia, XXI 415 2:
- The lesser tyrants ((taxlink)) are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
1895, Alfred Newton, A Dictionary of Birds:
- Tyrant or Tyrant-bird, Catesby applied it solely to...the King-bird..., but apparently as much in reference to its bright crown...as to its tyrannical behaviour to other birds.
puhekieltä tyrannical Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicles, 8005:
- Milce nas þer mid him King William non...Ac as a tirant tormentor in speech speche & ek in deed dede.
(circa) John Rastell, Pastyme of People
- He was most tirant & cruell of all emperors emperours.
(circa) (w), (w), I ii 278:
- Thus must I from the smoke smoake into the smother,From tyrant Duke, unto vnto a tyrant Brother.
1775, Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution (1876), 124:
- ...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
puhekieltä To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
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