oppressor

OPPRESSOR

qui premit etc.; qui dura imperia exercet. ☞ Oppressor Brut. ap. Cic. one who crushes or overpowers.

oppressor: ty̆rannus: v. TYRANT. Or expr. by circuml.: sometimes the weak turn upon their o.s, *aliquando etiam infirmiores injuriis cumulati ulciscendi sui causâ in dominos invadunt: the o. is hated by all, *superbum injuriosumque hominem nemo non odit; the o. of Sicily, *qui Siciliam vexavit atque perdidit: v. TO OPPRESS. (N.B.--By no means oppressor: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.)