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ochlocracy|ɒˈklɒkrəsɪ|
Also 6–7 -tie, -ty, -cie, -sie.
[a. F. ochlocratie (1568 in Hatz.-Darm.), a. Gr. ὀχλοκρατία mob-rule, f. ὄχλο-ς a crowd + -κρατία rule, authority: see -cracy. Also in 16th c. in the Latin form ochlocratia.]
Government by the mob or lowest of the people; mob-rule.
1584J. Stockwood Serm. C ij b, Ochlocratia, such a state, as in which the rude and rusticall people moderate all thinges after their own luste. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 16 b, There followeth a Democratie; by the outrages, and iniquities whereof, is againe erected the Ochlocratie. 1632C. Downing St. Eccl. of Kingd. (1634) 16 If it begin to degenerate into an Ochlocratie. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. iv. (1715) 16 Pericles..brought in a confus'd Ochlocracie, whereby the Populace, and basest of the Rabble obtain'd as great a share in the Government, as Persons of the Highest Birth and Quality. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 103 The authority of a corrupt and tumultuous populace has indeed..been regarded rather as an ochlocracy than a democracy,—as the despotism of the rabble, not the dominion of the people. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. v. xcv. 337 The commonest of the old charges against democracy was that it passed into ochlocracy. |