tyrant

suomi-englanti sanakirja

tyrant englannista suomeksi

  1. itsevaltias

  2. tyranni, sortaja

  3. hirmuhallitsija

  1. Substantiivi

  2. tyranni

  3. hallitsija

  4. tyranni, hirmuhallitsija

  5. Verbi

tyrant englanniksi

  1. A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=1980|author=Michel Austin; et al|title=Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece|section=142

  4. {{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=Roger Boesche|title=Theories of Tyranny, from Plato to Arendt|section=4

  5. Any monarch or governor.

  6. 1737, William Whiston translating (w), ''History of the Jewish Wars'', I xii §2:

  7. Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
  8. A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

  9. 1587, Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, ''A woorke concerning the trewnesse of the christian religion'', translating Philippe De Mornay, XII 196:

  10. Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
  11. (RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)

  12. (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.

  13. {{quote-text|en|year=1888|author=James Bryce|title=The American Commonweath|section=I iv 42

  14. Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

  15. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

  16. 1817, Mary Mitford in Alfred L'Estrange, ''The life of Mary Russell Mitford'' (1870), II i 2

  17. (..) a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
  18. A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

  19. (RQ:Tyndale NT)

  20. 1528, Thomas Paynell translating Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano, ''Regimen Sanitatis Salerni'':

  21. A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
  22. (RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)

  23. {{quote-text|en|year=1847|author=A. Helps|title=Friends in Council|section=I viii 132

  24. The (vern), members of the family (taxfmt), which often fight or off other birds which approach their nests.

  25. {{quote-text|en|year=1731|author=Mark Catesby|title=The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands|section=I 55

  26. (circa), Swainson, ''Penny Cyclopaedia'', XXI 415 2:

  27. 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.
  28. {{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=Alfred Newton|title=A Dictionary of Birds

  29. Tyrannical, tyrannous; like, characteristic of, or in the manner of a tyrant.

  30. {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1530|author=John Rastell|title=Pastyme of People

  31. (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)

  32. 1775, Abigail Adams, letter in ''Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution'' (1876), 124:

  33. ...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
  34. To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.

  35. {{quote-text|en|year=a. 1661|author=Thomas Fuller|title=Of Fancy

  36. To tyrannize.

  37. (alt form)