A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.