The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

A ruler with total power.

Appointed in times of military emergency to have supreme authority.

An absolute ruler. A tyrant, a despot.

a ruler who is unconstrained by law

a ruler with unlimited force and the Pepperlanders don't have any way to fight them

one who assumes absolute control without the free consent of the people.

A Roman magistrate elected during an emergency, without any colleagues and with authority exceeding all other magistrates.

Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. In modern usage, it refers to an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes sole power over the state (though the term is normally not applied to an absolute monarch; see also Oliver Cromwell).