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pedantocracy|pɛdənˈtɒkrəsɪ|
[f. pedant + -ocracy. App. first used in French form pédantocratie by J. S. Mill writing to Comte.]
A system of government by pedants; a governing body of pedants. So pedantocrat |pɪˈdæntəʊkræt|, a ruler who governs on pedantic principles; pedantoˈcratic a., characterized by ‘pedantocracy’.
[1842Mill Lett. à A. Comte 25 Feb. (1899) 28 Il ne pourrait en résulter que ce qu'on voit dans la Chine, c'est-à-dire une pédantocratie. 1842Comte Lett. to Mill 4 Mar. ibid. 35 Votre heureuse expression de pédantocratie.] 1859Mill Liberty v. 203 If we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy. 1872Farrar Witn. Hist. v. 184 A Pedantocracy of unpractical Philosophers. 1883F. Harrison in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 314 He [Gambetta] was not a corrupting pedantocrat like Guizot. 1886Morley Crit. Misc. (1888) III. 214 The fastidious or pedantocratic school of government. |