Autocracy

Au·toc·ra·cy

Autocracy

n.

pl. Autocracies

  1. 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.
  2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
  3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
  4. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. (Med.)