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Definition of Despotical
1. Adjective. Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot.
Definition of Despotical
1. Adjective. Despotic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despotical
Literary usage of Despotical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical by Thomas Hobbes (1885)
"CHAPTER XX, Of Dominion Paternal, and despotical. And this kind of dominion, or
sovereignty, differeth from sovereignty by 1 institution only in this, ..."
2. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1824)
"The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause,
has a despotical right over the persons of all that actually aided, ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"paternal and despotical; the other institutive, which CHAP. v. may be also called
political. In the first, the lord ' "T acquires to himself such citizens ..."
4. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"Of paternal, political, and despotical power, considered together. $ 169. THOUGH I
have had occasion to speak of these separately before, yet the great ..."
5. The Ethics of Hobbes by Thomas Hobbes (1898)
"Of Dominion Paternal, and despotical. A COMMONWEALTH " by acquisition," is that,
where the sovereign power is acquired by force; and it is acquired by force ..."
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