Ka cika wannan magana: Har ƙarshen rabin ƙarni na 19, kalmar nan "mai mulkin kama karya" tana da ma'ana mai kyau a wasu lokatai. Alal misali, a lokacin
Juyin Juya Halin Hungary na 1848, shugaban kasa Lajos Kossuth galibi ana kiransa mai mulkin kama karya, ba tare da wata ma'ana mara kyau ba, ta hanyar magoya bayansa da masu sukar sa, kodayake taken sa na hukuma shi ne na mai mulki-shugaba. Lokacin ƙirƙirar zartarwa na wucin gadi a Sicily yayin Tafiya na Dubu a 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi a hukumance ya ɗauki taken "Dictator" (duba Dictatorship of Garibaldi). Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, a lokacin Tashin hankalin Janairu na 1863 a Poland, "Dictator" shi ma taken hukuma ne na shugabanni huɗu, na farko shine Ludwik Mierosławski.