tyrannize Copy link Outline I. To govern as despot1. dŏmĭnor, 12. tyrannus sum (with gen.)II. To act cruelly or imperiously • tyrannize: I. To govern as despot: 1. dŏmĭnor, 1: Cic.: Caes. 2. tyrannus sum (with gen.): Cic. Or expr. by subs.: v. tyranny, tyrant. II. To act cruelly or imperiously: crudeliter et regie facio, Cic.: to t. over any one, tyrannice in aliquem statuere, Cic. Verr. 3, 48, 115; superbe crudeliterque aliquem tractare, Justin. 42, 1, 3; tyrannum esse in aliquem, Cic. Phil. 13, 8, 17; tyrannica crudelitate aliquem vexare, Justin. 42, 1, 3: to t. over a city or state, urbem crudeli dominatu premere, Cic. de Div. 1, 25, 53; civitatem servitute oppressam tenere, id. Tusc. 5, 20, 57.
TYRANNIZE Copy link • TYRANNIZETo govern as a tyrant, tyrannidem exercere: tyrannum agere: dominari (regnare, in the Roman sense). To act cruelly and imperiously, crudeliter facere. To tyrannize over anybody, superbe crudeliterque aliquem tractare: tyrannice statuere in aliquem: crudelem, saevum esse in aliquem (after Cic.); tyrannicum imperium exercere in aliquem (Ruhnken); tyrannico imperio premere aliquem (Muret.).