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democratical, a. (n.)|dɛməʊˈkrætɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= democratic 1.
1589Hay any Work 26 It is Monarchicall, in regarde of our head Christ, Aristocraticall in the Eldership, and Democraticall in the people. 1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 4 b, Ostracismes practiced in those Democraticall and Popular states of elder times. 1686in Somers Tracts I. 111 The Democratical Man, that is never quiet under any Government. 1791Boswell Johnson 21 Mar. an. 1775 I abhor his Whiggish democratical notions and propensities. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxiv. (1862) V. 501 The levy was in fact as democratical and as equalising as..on that memorable occasion.
†B. n. = democrat 1. Obs.
1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxii. 122 Aristocraticalls and Democraticalls of old time in Greece. 1679― Behemoth i. Wks. VI. 199 The thing which those democraticals chiefly then aimed at, was to force the King to call a parliament. 1714E. Lewis Letter to Swift 6 July, He is in with the democraticals. |