a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | the activity of managing or exerting control over something |
dominance through threat of punishment and violence | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc |
| a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine |
| power to direct or determine |
| discipline in personal and social activities |
| great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity |
| a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment |
| the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. |
| a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance |
| a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another |
| the state that exists when one person or group has power over another |