absolutistic,a.|æbsəljuːˈtɪstɪk|[f.prec.+ -ic;cf.Calvinistic.]Of or pertaining to absolutists or absolutism;=absolutist a.; as ‘absolutistic principles.’1854Tait'sMag.XXI. 352[It]attempted to reconcile the self-government of the nation with the domination of thirty-four absolutistic princes!1905W. JamesMeaning of Truth (1909) iii. 57It means..a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this inductive view of the conditions of belief.1940Mind XLIX. 426Hegel..used his principle of the identity of reason and reality..to defend the idea of the absolutistic state (an idea called, today, ‘totalitarianism’).Hence absoluˈtistically adv.1909W. JamesPluralistic Universe 365An ipse dixit of Mr. Bradley's absolutistically tempered ‘understanding’.