dictature

Borrowed from French dictature.

dictature (plural dictatures)

1. (obsolete) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
   • 1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, Civics: as Applied Sociology, Sociological Society, B—The Historic Survey Of Cities, p. 109:

     The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

• trucidate, urticated

Borrowed from Latin dictātūra, from dictō.

• IPA^(key): /dik.ta.tyʁ/

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dictature f (plural dictatures)

1. dictatorship

• dicter
• dictateur

• “dictature” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• dictateur

dictātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of dictātūrus