different between tyrannise vs tyrannize

English

Verb

tyrannise (third-person singular simple present tyrannises, present participle tyrannising, simple past and past participle tyrannised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tyrannize.

   • And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.

Anagrams

• Tyrsenian, tyrannies

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tyrannisent, tyrannises

Verb

tyrannise

1. first-person singular present indicative of tyranniser
2. third-person singular present indicative of tyranniser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tyranniser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tyranniser
5. second-person singular imperative of tyranniser

English

Alternative forms

• tyrannise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From Middle French tyranniser

Verb

tyrannize (third-person singular simple present tyrannizes, present participle tyrannizing, simple past and past participle tyrannized)

1. (transitive) To oppress (someone).
   • 1929, Edgar Wallace, “The Tyrant of the House” in The Iron Grip, London: George Newnes,^[1]

     In truth he was the type of man who is spoilt by the submission of weaker people than himself. There are such men, who must either be tyrannized or be tyrants […]

   • 2001, Breena Clarke, “Roots of Success” (review of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles), Chicago Tribune, 18 February, 2001,^[2]

     I spent the first 18 years of my life tyrannized by a red-hot hair-pressing comb. Well, maybe tyrannized is an exaggeration. But covering your ears while hot grease sizzles nearby is not a young girl's idea of a fun time.

2. (intransitive) To rule as a tyrant.

   The prince tyrannized over his subjects.

   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[3]

     What? will they tyrannize vpon the Church?

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act IV, Scene 3,^[4]

     Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable

     What time I threw the people’s suffrages

     On him that thus doth tyrannize o’er me.

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 24,^[5]

     […] lest som should perswade ye, Lords and Commons, that these arguments of lerned mens discouragement at this your order, are meer flourishes, and not reall, I could recount what I have seen and heard in other Countries, where this kind of inquisition tyrannizes […]

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part I, Chapter 10, p. 344,^[6]

     Parental affection, indeed, in many minds, is but a pretext to tyrannize where it can be done with impunity, for only good and wise men are content with the respect that will bear discussion.

   • General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannize inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it.

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