| 释义 |
gerontocratic, a.|dʒɛˌrɒntəʊˈkrætɪk|
[f. gerontocracy: see -crat and -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a gerontocracy.
1950African Studies Dec. 159 Some anthropologists are of the opinion that gerontocratic age-groups are an invention of the Negro. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound ii. 40 Many youths looked forward to migrant labour as an exciting liberation from parental and gerontocratic control. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Soc. iii. 81 Grandparents..belong to the generation which exerts gerontocratic political and jural authority in the matrilineal village. |