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kakistocracy|kækɪˈstɒkrəsɪ|
[f. Gr. κάκιστο-ς worst + -κρατία rule, after aristocracy.]
The government of a state by the worst citizens.
1829T. L. Peacock Misfort. Elphin vi. 93 Our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity. 1876Lowell Lett. II. vii. 179 Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? 1879Baring-Gould Germany II. 286 The..régime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy.
So † kakistoˈcratical a.
1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. vi. 82 But when the men in whose hands the government of the Church is, are bad; then it is τῶν κακίστων κράτος, or Kakistocraticall. |