tyrant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liueth still.”

2. isim Any monarch or governor.

   “Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.”

3. isim A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

   “Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.”

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

   “A plague vpon the Tyrant that I serue”

5. isim A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

   “I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt.”

6. isim The tyrant birds, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.

   “The Tyrant... The courage of this little Bird is singular.”

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

   “He was most tirant & cruell of all emperours.”

8. fiil To act like a tyrant; to be tyrannical.

   “Let thy judgment be king, but not tyrant over it”

9. fiil To tyrannize.