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isocracy|aɪˈsɒkrəsɪ|
[ad. Gr. ἰσοκρατία equality of power or political rights, f. ἰσο-, iso- + κράτος, κρατε- strength, power: see -cracy.]
Equality of power or rule; a system of government in which all the people possess equal political power.
1652L. S. People's Liberty vii. 12 It remaineth doubtfull, whether people who live together, may lawfully retain an Isocracie among them. 1796Southey in Life I. 265 There is a very seditious Spaniard there now, preaching Atheism and Isocracy. 1879F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XXVIII. 155/1 Aspirations after social isocracy, and socialism in all its protean aspects. 1895Q. Rev. Apr. 456 A debasing isocracy, which already views with suspicion the cultivation of the highest literature as savouring of patrician insolence.
So isocrat |ˈaɪsəʊkræt| [see -crat], an advocate of isocracy; isoˈcratic a., of or pertaining to or advocating isocracy; iˈsocratize v. ? intr. to practise isocracy.
1801Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. iv. (1851) 3/2 The young hopes and heat of Japhet may force him into a livelier interest; he should be for isocratizing. 1894Daily News 22 June 6/3 The new name which Mr. Allen suggests and Mr. Reid adopts is ‘The Isocratic Party. Isocrats we are, Isocrats let us call ourselves’.
Add:2. Chem. In chromatography, designating or involving a mobile phase whose composition is kept constant and uniform.
1974Jrnl. Chromatogr. XCI. 208 The relationship between the composition of the mobile phase and the retention volume, band width and resolution is derived for isocratic elution chromatography (constant mobile phase composition). 1978Nature 6 Apr. p. xxxiii/1 The autosampler operates in either the isocratic or gradient modes. 1980Chem. in Brit. XVI. 530/4 The company claims that model 5010 offers outstanding performance characteristics for all applications where only isocratic work is carried out. 1983Industr. Res. & Devel. June 104/1 The emphasis is on using more than one column and various valves to provide an on-line determination within a useful period of time using an isocratic mobile phase. |