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† ˈpeopledom Obs.
[f. people n. after kingdom.]
A province, commune, deme (usually with reference to ancient Greece); also, the dominion of a people, a democracy.
1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 119 Greece..was divided into many several Peopledoms. 1659J. Harrington Lawgiving iii. iv. (1700) 460 The (δηµοι) Peopledoms or Prytanys of Athens, which Theseus gather'd into one body. 1660C. Bonde Scut. Reg. 333 It is the people now which make the King; if so, why ever had we any Kingdoms? why were they not called Peopledoms? 1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. vii. 80 And hope the Kingdom will become, In time, a glorious Peopledom. |