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stratocracy|strəˈtɒkrəsɪ|
Also 7 stratocratie.
[f. Gr. στρατό-ς army + -κρατία: see -cracy. Cf. F. stratocratie.]
Government by the army; military rule; a polity in which the army is the controlling power.
1652Observ. Forms of Govt. 8 Their Monarchy was changed into a Stratocratie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Stratocracy (Gr.) military Government; where a Commonwealth is governed by an Army or by Soldiers. 1659Gauden Slight Healers (1660) 61 A game of Government wholly new to England, called Stratocracy. 1758Monthly Rev. 27 They [the English c 1650] felt in their turns all the inconveniences of an Oligarchy, a Democracy, and a Stratocracy. 1815Grattan Sp. 25 May (1822) III. 374 Sir, the French Government is war; it is a stratocracy. 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 102 The government of an imperator was.. permanent stratocracy having a moveable head. 1899Spectator 7 Oct. 485/2 The greatest danger to the permanent progress of Europe..is the possibility of a period of stratocracy.
So ˈstratocrat, one who embodies military rule; stratoˈcratic a., pertaining to stratocracy.
1840G. Raymond in New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 463 Having, with a stratocratic ‘privilege’, forcibly appropriated the person of a young Polish female. 1892Spectator 11 June 809/1 The triumphant stratocrat whom their [the Roman oligarchy's] system tended to produce. |