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aristocratic, a.|ˌærɪstəʊˈkrætɪk|
[a. F. aristocratique, ad. Gr. ἀριστοκρατικ-ός: see aristocracy and -ic.]
1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; attached to or favouring aristocracy.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lvii. (1612) 250 Aristocratick gouernment nor Democratick pleas'd. 1791Burke Let. Nat. Assemb. Wks. VI. 37 To destroy these aristocratick prejudices. 1868G. Duff Polit. Surv. 35 The so-called aristocratic party, the landlords.
2. Befitting an aristocrat; grand, stylish.
1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 89 The principal tradesmen..deemed it more ‘aristocratic’; using a favourite and hackneyed epithet, which only expressed their own servility. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 65 Rooms so much..more aristocratic than those in which she had lived. |