Tȳ-răn'nic or Tȳ-răn'nic-al, a.

(Synop., § 130), a. [Fr. tyrannique, It. tirannico, Sp. tiranico, Lat. tyrannicus, Gr. τυραννικός.] Of, or pertaining to, a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power.

Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Roscommon.

The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst. Pope.