Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dictator

Dictator , noun

[Latin]

1.
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. — Locke
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