Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Har zuwa ƙarshen rabin rabin karni na 19, kalmar "mai mulkin kama karya" tana da kyakkyawar ma'ana. 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, duk da cewa 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.