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monocrat|ˈmɒnəkræt|
[ad. Gr. µονοκρατ-ής ruling alone, f. µόνο-ς mono- + κρατ-εῖν to rule: see -crat.]
a. One who rules alone; an autocrat. (In Dicts.)
b. A partisan of monocracy or monarchy; a political nickname given circa 1790 by Jefferson to members of the Federalist party, because they sided with England as against France.
1792Jefferson Writ. (1859) III. 494 The doctrines of the Monocrats. 1793Ibid. IV. 9 The war between France and England has brought forward the Republicans and Monocrats in every State. 1883J. T. Morse jr. Jefferson xv. (1885) 251 Here was an act, done by the great Republican doctrinaire-president,..monarchical, beyond what any ‘monocrat’ had ever dared to dream of.
appos.179.Jefferson in W. Irving Washington (1863) V. 148 (Funk) Even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England.
Hence monoˈcratic a., relating to monocracy.
1890Lowell Milton's Areop. Latest Lit. Ess. (1891) 101 His experience of Cromwell apparently having made any monocratic devices distasteful to him. |