[See -ISM.] The system of political government centering in the tsar of Russia.
1855. Tait’s Mag., 245/1. The political and social results of Czarism and serfdom.
1891. M. St. Hilaire, in Times, 21 Oct., 5/2. Czarism is not to be destroyed, being in its essence Slavonic.
So Czaristic a., characteristic of tsarism.
1883. Z. B. Gustafson, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 893/2. Czaristic ukases became especially severe.
