Dic-tā'tor, n.

n. [Lat., Pr. dicterye, dictador, Sp. dictador, It. dittatore, Fr. dictateur.]

1. One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims for the direction of others.
2. One invested with absolute authority, especially a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.