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δεσποτ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for a master, συμφοραί misfortunes that befall one's master, X.Cyr.7.5.64; δίκαιον a master's right, Arist.EN134b8; “ὑπομένειν τὴν δ. ἀρχήν” Id.Pol.1285a22; ἡ δ., = δεσποτεία, ib.1259a37; “τὸ δ.” Pl.Lg.697c.
2. Imperial, “νομισμάτια” PFlor.95.10; “κτήσεις” PLond.2.234.1 (iv A. D.); νοτάριος ib.416.3.(iv A. D.).
II. fitted to rule, “ἀδικία-ώτερον δικαιοσύνης” Pl.R.344c, etc.; inclined to tyranny, despotic, “ὀλιγαρχία δ.” Arist.Pol.1306b3; δῆμος ib.1292a16; of persons, tyrannical, Phld.Ir.p.50 W. Adv. “-κῶς, βουλεύεσθαι” Isoc.4.104; “ἄρχειν” Arist.Pol.1295a16: Comp. “-ωτέρως” Id.Ath.24.2.
2. c. gen., exercising despotic power over, “τινός” X. Oec..13.5; “ἐστὶ δὲ τυραννὶς μοναρχία δ. τῆς πολιτικῆς κοινωνίας” Arist. Pol.1279b16; δ. τῶν βελτιόνων ib.1292a19.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 24.2
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 104
    • Plato, Laws, 697c
    • Plato, Republic, 344c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.5.64
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