单词 | monocracy |
释义 | monocracyn. Government by a single person; autocracy. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [noun] monarchya1393 absolute monarchy1575 monocracy1606 despotic monarchy1764 1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices 66 Where one king moderateth and ruleth all nations vnder his dominion vnited, according to the true spirit of vertue, which domination is properly tearmed by the sages of wisedome a monocracie. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋34 The Monocracy and single-sol'd intemperature of the Liver. 1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 95 Monocracy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. 1839 S. Smith Ballot (ed. 2) 29 A scene of wholesale bacchanalian fraud,..which would disgust any man with a free government, and make him sigh for the monocracy of Constantinople. 1893 G. Smith United States 160 Jefferson's jeremiads over the encroachments and corruptions of monocracy under the first two Presidents. 1946 C. P. Monningh (title) Appeal on petition for industrial monocracy. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 994/2 While royal rule..has almost vanished as an effective principle of government in the modern world, monocracy..still flourishes. 1998 Res. Afr. Lit. (Nexis) 29 Progressively, scholars have been solicited, enticed to become organic intellectuals in order to legitimize monocracies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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