释义 |
landocracy jocular.|lænˈdɒkrəsɪ| [f. land n.1: see -cracy.] The class of people which owes its controlling position in the country to its possession of landed property. So ˈlandocrat, a member of this class.
1848Simmonds's Colon. Mag. Aug. 343 The Landocracy—in which term we comprehend all landowners great and small. a1865Cobden in Daily News (1869) 16 Jan., The aristocracy and landocracy and moneyocracy who govern our elections. 1882T. Mozley Remin. II. xcviii. 173 [I felt] a deep grievance with the British landocracy. 1893Nat. Observer 23 Sept. 484/1 The wail of the landocrat is heard in the land. |