Outside view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, showing the distinctive Tudor arch. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485â1603) and even beyond.
Full Definition of TYRANT. 1. a: an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution b: a usurper of sovereignty. 2. a: a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally b: one resembling an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power.
Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as one who rules without law, and uses extreme and cruel tacticsâagainst his own people as well as others. It is defined further in the EncyclopÃ©die as a usurper of sovereign power who makes his subjects the victims of his passions and unjust desires, which he substitutes for laws.