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timocratic, a.|taɪməʊˈkrætɪk|
[ad. med.L. tīmocratic-us, a. Gr. τῑµοκρατικ-ός, f. τῑµοκρατία: see prec. and -ic. So F. timocratique.]
Of, belonging to, or characterized by a timocracy. a. In the Aristotelian sense: see prec. 1.
1847Grote Greece ii. xxxi. IV. 168 The timocratic classification of Solon..continued to subsist. 1869A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 89 These were the timocratic constitutions, which arrange the citizens in divisions, and determine the measure of their rights according to the standard of property. 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 32 The Comitia Centuriata was a timocratic assembly, or one in which the ascendency belonged to wealth.
b. In the Platonic sense: see prec. 2.
1852Davies & Vaughan tr. Plato's Rep. (1858) 312 Such we find to be the character of the timocratic young man, who resembles the timocratic state. 1905Contemp. Rev. Apr. 556 The timocratic man who seeks honour may easily degenerate to the mere money lover. |