pedantocracyn.

Brit.

/ˌpɛd(ə)nˈtɒkrəsi/, U.S.

/ˌpɛd(ə)nˈtɑkrəsi/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pedant n., -ocracy comb. form.

Etymology: < pedant n. + -ocracy comb. form, after French pédantocratie (1842 or earlier: see quots. below).1842 J. S. Mill 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.1842 A. Comte Lett. to Mill 4 Mar. (1899) 35 Votre heureuse expression de pédantocratie.

A system of government by pedants; the rule of pedants. Also: a governing body of pedants.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of pedants

pedantocracy1856

society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > other ruling classes or groups

stratocracy1652

Praetorian Guard1735

oligarchy1823

vampirarchy1823

hierocracy1828

gerontocracy1830

Whigocracy1831

plantocracy1839

mediocracy1845

squattocracy1846

snobocracy1853

pedantocracy1856

foolocracy1859

thugocracy1896

pigmentocracy1949

xenocracy1965

1856 ‘T. H. Prescott’ Amer. Encycl. Hist., Biogr., & Trav. 26 Such are the Chinese..living under a form of government which has been very happily designated a pedantocracy.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 203 If we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy.

1872 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. (new ed.) v. 184 A Pedantocracy of unpractical Philosophers.

1964 E. Barker Greek Polit. Theory xvii. 432 The curious feature of his pedantocracy is that it is most fastidious in that department, to which we naturally think of Plato himself as belonging—the department of literature.

1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 184/1 Jay is concerned to defend Marx against Bakunin's claim that Marxism expresses the class interest of a nascent pedantocracy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pedantocracy
释义	pedantocracyn. Brit. /ˌpɛd(ə)nˈtɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌpɛd(ə)nˈtɑkrəsi/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pedant n., -ocracy comb. form. Etymology: < pedant n. + -ocracy comb. form, after French pédantocratie (1842 or earlier: see quots. below).1842 J. S. Mill 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.1842 A. Comte Lett. to Mill 4 Mar. (1899) 35 Votre heureuse expression de pédantocratie. A system of government by pedants; the rule of pedants. Also: a governing body of pedants. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of pedants pedantocracy1856 society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > other ruling classes or groups stratocracy1652 Praetorian Guard1735 oligarchy1823 vampirarchy1823 hierocracy1828 gerontocracy1830 Whigocracy1831 plantocracy1839 mediocracy1845 squattocracy1846 snobocracy1853 pedantocracy1856 foolocracy1859 thugocracy1896 pigmentocracy1949 xenocracy1965 1856 ‘T. H. Prescott’ Amer. Encycl. Hist., Biogr., & Trav. 26 Such are the Chinese..living under a form of government which has been very happily designated a pedantocracy. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 203 If we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy. 1872 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. (new ed.) v. 184 A Pedantocracy of unpractical Philosophers. 1964 E. Barker Greek Polit. Theory xvii. 432 The curious feature of his pedantocracy is that it is most fastidious in that department, to which we naturally think of Plato himself as belonging—the department of literature. 1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 184/1 Jay is concerned to defend Marx against Bakunin's claim that Marxism expresses the class interest of a nascent pedantocracy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856
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