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 strict disciplinarian.
Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
A martin; a swift.