tyrant
suomi-englanti sanakirjatyrant englannista suomeksi
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tyranni, sortaja
hirmuhallitsija
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tyrant englanniksi
A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
{{quote-text|en|year=1980|author=Michel Austin; et al|title=Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece|section=142
{{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=Roger Boesche|title=Theories of Tyranny, from Plato to Arendt|section=4
1737, William Whiston translating (w), ''History of the Jewish Wars'', I xii §2:
- Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
1587, Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, ''A woorke concerning the trewnesse of the christian religion'', translating Philippe De Mornay, XII 196:
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(quote-book)|chapter=Period VI. Containing the Testimony through the Continued Tract of the Present Deformation, from the Year 1660 to this Day.|title=A Hind Let Loose: Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland, for the Interest of Christ; with the True State thereof in All Its Periods: ...|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Reprinted by R. Drummond and Company, and sold by William Gray bookbinder in the (w), and several others, &c.|year=1744|pages=167–168|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/hindletlooseo0shiepage/n169/mode/1up/|oclc=723488025|passage=Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted &91;(w)&93;, to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.
{{quote-text|en|year=1888|author=James Bryce|title=The American Commonweath|section=I iv 42
Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
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.
A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
(RQ:Tyndale NT)
1528, Thomas Paynell translating Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano, ''Regimen Sanitatis Salerni'':
- A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
{{quote-text|en|year=1847|author=A. Helps|title=Friends in Council|section=I viii 132
The (vern), members of the family (taxfmt), which often fight or off other birds which approach their nests.
{{quote-text|en|year=1731|author=Mark Catesby|title=The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands|section=I 55
(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.
{{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=Alfred Newton|title=A Dictionary of Birds
Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1530|author=John Rastell|title=Pastyme of People
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
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.
To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.
{{quote-text|en|year=a. 1661|author=Thomas Fuller|title=Of Fancy
To tyrannize.
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