timocratic

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌtɪməˈkɹætɪk/

Adjective

timocratic (comparative more timocratic, superlative most timocratic)

  1. Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.
    • c. 1855, George Cornewall Lewis, Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion:
      With regard to the distribution of political franchises and rights, the timocratic principle, so far as it rests upon the doctrine of a proportionate interest in a common object, cannot be admitted without large qualifications

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for timocratic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French timocratique.

Adjective

timocratic m or n (feminine singular timocratică, masculine plural timocratici, feminine and neuter plural timocratice)

  1. timocratic

Declension

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