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junto|ˈdʒʌntəʊ|
Also 7–8 juncto.
[Erroneous form of junta, by assimilation to Sp. ns. in o (cf. -ado 2). The form juncto (after L. junctum) was very common down to 1700.]
1. A body of men who have joined or combined for a common purpose, especially of a political character; a self-elected committee or council; a clique, faction, or cabal; a club or coterie.
a. In politics or matters of public interest.
In English History the term has been chiefly applied to the Cabinet Council of Charles I, to the Independent and Presbyterian factions of the same period, to the Rump Parliament under Cromwell, and to the combination of prominent Whigs in the reigns of William III and Anne.
1641F. Greville Eng. Episc. (1642) 35 Are these men fit..to direct and advise..in the Privie Juncto's; to sit at the Helme, to dictate Lawes. 1645Wither Vox Pacif. iii. 102 This new Junto, doth so strong become By their conferring Offices and Places. 1657M. Hawke Killing is M. 5 How unworthily..doth this Impostor brand that pacifique and prudent Parliament..with the strange name of a Junto. 1680Love in Reflect. ‘Curse-ye-Meroz’ 22 The Juncto [the Rump] at Westminster have..received more Money in one year than all the Kings of England. 1708Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. X. 289 You should form a small junto, and meet for that and other publick ends. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §32 (1740) 333 These subdivided Offices or Branches of Power, may be committed to single Persons or Junctos as Laws have provided. 1783Cowper Lett. 27 Dec., Wks. (1876) 151 The patriotic junto whose efforts have staved off the expected dissolution. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. xxv. 374 There was believed to be often a secret Junto which really controlled the ministry.
†b. In ecclesiastical affairs. Obs.
1641H. P. Quest. Div. Right Episc. 10 If London..should arbitrate by a Junto of all her Divines. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. v. 87 The Trent Juncto hath voted for them.
fig.a1716South Serm. (1744) VII. iv. 70 One diocesan bishop, will better defend this enclosed garden of the church, than a juncto of five hundred shrubs, than all the quicksets of Geneva.
c. In general sense.
1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 171 And did the Juncto of the Gods agree, To make you Sol? 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 36 None were so loud, as a Junto of Wits. 1713Addison Guard. No. 140 ⁋4 As..lately settled in a junto of the sex. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 47 At the corners are assembled juntos of village idlers and wise men.
†2. = junta 1. Obs.
1701Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 6 From Madrid, that the people seem dissatisfyed with their juncto. 1747Gentl. Mag. 119 The deputation of the nobless, which they call the junto of the holy office.
3. Comb., as junto-lord, one of the Whig combination in Anne's reign; junto-man, a member of a junto.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iv. vii. (1854) 263 Lords, knights, and parliament men (otherwise juncto men). 1648C. Walker Hist. Independ. i. 21 The Junto-men..the State-Mountebanks. 1713Swift Hist. Last Sess. Wks. 1758 IX. 28 The Juncto Lords as they were then called.
Hence junˈtocracy nonce-wd. [see -cracy], government by a junto.
1774Burgh Pol. Disquis. in Examiner (1831) 140/2 The British government is really a juntocracy,..or government by a minister and his crew. |