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† moˈnopolite Obs.
[f. monopole1 or monopoly + -ite1 1.]
A monopolist.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 522 You Marchant Mercers, and Monopolites. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 58 To keepe out fell and black Monopolites, The Myrmedonian crue [referring to ants]. 1616R. Carpenter Christ's Larum bell 58 Monopolites, ingrossers, regraters.
So monopolitical a. (nonce-wd.), interested in monopolies.
1860W. H. Russell Diary in India I. 7 ‘The confounded public’, as that large and respectable body is frequently styled in the privacies of official and monopolitical life. |