What's the difference between caesar and caesarism?

Caesar


Definition:

  • (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
  • (2) Two millennia ago, Julius Caesar realised that there was something even more powerful than his empire: the planet’s revolution around the sun.
  • (3) I would like to see, over time, an understanding by all people and cultures, and religions, that there should be separation of church and state, that there is a sense of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.
  • (4) He was a poet of modest pretensions and, although his translation of Julius Caesar was not brilliant, he did, after all, dare to translate Shakespeare.
  • (5) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
  • (6) During a fourth stop authorities said van driver Caesar Goodson called for help and Sergeant Alicia White got involved.
  • (7) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
  • (8) A toy autocracy may easily invite a real one; it was recently revealed that nuclear war would have made the monarch a genuine tyrant with the power to appoint a prime minister without an election, although it is hard to imagine Elizabeth II – with her rugs bearing a knitted royal crest, and her tiny dogs – as Gaius Julius Caesar.
  • (9) In 2009, their Roman Tragedies transformed Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra into an epic multimedia spectacle for the rolling-news era.
  • (10) (1952), and a fine, if unprofound, Antony in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar (1953).
  • (11) Alexander's foray from the beltway to address hackers at Caesar's Palace had been compared to entering the lion's den.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Ehrenreich in the trailer for Hail, Caesar!
  • (13) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
  • (14) When asked by presenter Jeremy Paxman, "if you were Brutus, Caesar would have been fine, wouldn't he?"
  • (15) The homoerotic subtext is never far from the surface of Tatum’s scenes, and Hail, Caesar!
  • (16) In Zimbabwe all caesars probably warrant prophylactic antibiotics.
  • (17) Mike Ilitch, owner of Little Caesars Pizza and two Detroit sports teams, has similarly bought up real estate on the cheap .
  • (18) Looking around the room at the thousands who packed an auditorium at the Caesars Palace casino hotel, just down the Las Vegas strip from Trump’s eponymous tower, Clinton said “the metaphor of this election may be walls or bridges.” “Are we stronger together or stronger apart?” he asked the crowd, comprising mostly of voters representing the nation’s fastest-growing racial group.
  • (19) • This article was amended on 26 September to correct a conflation of Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan.
  • (20) Even when "which" isn't mandatory, great writers have been using it for centuries, as in the King James Bible's "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and Franklin Roosevelt's "a day which will live in infamy".

Caesarism


Definition:

  • (n.) A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
  • (2) Two millennia ago, Julius Caesar realised that there was something even more powerful than his empire: the planet’s revolution around the sun.
  • (3) I would like to see, over time, an understanding by all people and cultures, and religions, that there should be separation of church and state, that there is a sense of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.
  • (4) He was a poet of modest pretensions and, although his translation of Julius Caesar was not brilliant, he did, after all, dare to translate Shakespeare.
  • (5) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
  • (6) During a fourth stop authorities said van driver Caesar Goodson called for help and Sergeant Alicia White got involved.
  • (7) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
  • (8) A toy autocracy may easily invite a real one; it was recently revealed that nuclear war would have made the monarch a genuine tyrant with the power to appoint a prime minister without an election, although it is hard to imagine Elizabeth II – with her rugs bearing a knitted royal crest, and her tiny dogs – as Gaius Julius Caesar.
  • (9) In 2009, their Roman Tragedies transformed Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra into an epic multimedia spectacle for the rolling-news era.
  • (10) (1952), and a fine, if unprofound, Antony in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar (1953).
  • (11) Alexander's foray from the beltway to address hackers at Caesar's Palace had been compared to entering the lion's den.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Ehrenreich in the trailer for Hail, Caesar!
  • (13) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
  • (14) When asked by presenter Jeremy Paxman, "if you were Brutus, Caesar would have been fine, wouldn't he?"
  • (15) The homoerotic subtext is never far from the surface of Tatum’s scenes, and Hail, Caesar!
  • (16) In Zimbabwe all caesars probably warrant prophylactic antibiotics.
  • (17) Mike Ilitch, owner of Little Caesars Pizza and two Detroit sports teams, has similarly bought up real estate on the cheap .
  • (18) Looking around the room at the thousands who packed an auditorium at the Caesars Palace casino hotel, just down the Las Vegas strip from Trump’s eponymous tower, Clinton said “the metaphor of this election may be walls or bridges.” “Are we stronger together or stronger apart?” he asked the crowd, comprising mostly of voters representing the nation’s fastest-growing racial group.
  • (19) • This article was amended on 26 September to correct a conflation of Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan.
  • (20) Even when "which" isn't mandatory, great writers have been using it for centuries, as in the King James Bible's "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and Franklin Roosevelt's "a day which will live in infamy".

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