The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like He is the man (who is in charge).
autocratic - characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; an authoritarian regime; autocratic government; despotic rulers; a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war; a tyrannical government. authoritarian, tyrannic, tyrannical, despotic, dictatorial.
Cyrus is made to behave rather like the autocratic father of a goody story-book. The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong. At present, an autocratic bureaucracy with no one man at the top. Is it likely that such feel the autocratic pressure of their Tsar? They charged Susan with lust for power and autocratic control. L'Ãtat c'est moi was the autocratic maxim of Louis Quatorze. Mr. Harling, therefore, seemed to me autocratic and imperial in his ways. The pottery-works were run on a liberal if autocratic basis.