Monocracy \Mo*noc"ra*cy\, n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by a single person; undivided rule. --Sydney Smith.
monocracy n : a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: {dictatorship}, {absolutism}, {authoritarianism}, {Caesarism}, {despotism}, {one-man rule}, {shogunate}, {Stalinism}, {totalitarianism}, {tyranny}]