单词 | popular state |
释义 | popular staten. Democracy, democratic government; (also) a democracy; a democratic state or nation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] democracya1500 popularity1546 popular state1546 populacy1632 demarchy1643 liberal democracy1787 mass democracy1932 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. ii. f. xxxviii Democratie, or popular state [L. popularis principatus] where the common people haue a stroke in rulyng the publyke weale. 1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline ii. 12 The Geneuans did chaung theyr monarchy into a popular state. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists ix. 23 Nothing..can be more disorderly, then the confusion of your Democracy, or popular state. 1676 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. lv. 155 They who prefer a Popular State, have dignifi'd it with the most agreeable and specious Title of Isonomie. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons ii. 14 Theseus is the first who is Recorded..to have establish'd the Popular State in Athens. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. vii. 203 Pericles..devoted himself to eloquence, which, in a popular state, he considered as the fountain of all promotion. 1839 Q. Rev. Dec. 110 In all popular states..the religion of the government must follow the religion of the people. 1899 E. Salsibury tr. K. Dändliker Short Hist. Switzerland 285 Twenty-four cantons..allow the people a share in the legislation in one form or another... This introduction of the popular state and popular government forms a distinctive feature of the home policy of this country. 1919 Univ. Rec. (Univ. Chicago) Jan. 118 Democracy implies self-reliance and social obligation. If the philosophy of the popular state actually stimulates this feeling of obligation, [etc.]. 1999 A. Nye Princess & Philosopher 124 Persuasion, rhetoric, sensitivity to other interests—these are the skills of politics in a popular state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1546 |
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