arithmocracyn.
A form of government in which the power is vested in the simply numerical majority.Apparently an isolated use.
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1856 C. Kingsley Alton Locke (rev. ed.) p. ix A ‘democracy’ of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute ‘arithmocracy.’
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n.1856- to give a person the road
- to give a person the rough edge of one's tongue
- to give a person the runaround
- to give a person the rush
- to give a person the sack
- to give a person the screaming habdabs
- to give a person the shits
- to give a person the shoot
- to give a person the sick
- to give a person the silent treatment
- to give a person the tomtits
- to give a person the verbal
- to give a person the verbals
- to give a person the wall
- to give a person the works
- to give a person the worst
- to give a person the worst of it
- to give a person the worst on it
- to give a person their cards
- to give a person thing) the fingers
- to give a person time
- to give a person to believe, know, note, understand
- to give a person to eat
- to give a person what for
- to give a person's respects to