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• r  in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator
• r  in an autocratic manner
  the Czars ruled Russia autocratically

• During his three terms he ruled autocratically, fought the New Deal, and brought Georgia education to a low estate with his witch hunts in schools and colleges.
• Though he maintained the trappings of a constitutional monarchy, he in fact ruled autocratically, relying on SAVAK, a dreaded secret police, to suppress all forms of opposition.
• That this example has been so widely copied is perhaps an indication that it is easier to rule people autocratically than to reason with them.

• dictatorially
• magisterially