Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TY-RAN'NIC, or TY-RAN'NIC-AL, a. [Fr. tyrannique; Gr. τυραννικος.]

Pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; arbitrary; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power. Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Roscommon. Th' oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst Pope.