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oligarchical, a.|ɒlɪˈgɑːkɪkəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] = prec.
1586Bright Melanch. xii. 59 Which popularitie of administration nature will none of, nor yet with any holygarcicall or mixt. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 584 Megabyses..perswaded the oligarchicall government. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. iii. (1651) 569 She will..wear the breeches in her oligarchicall government. 1839Thirlwall Greece xliii. V. 261 A large share of power was thrown into the hands of an oligarchical faction. Hence oliˈgarchically adv., in an oligarchical manner, by an oligarchical government.
1850Grote Greece ii. lv. VII. 19 Tegea, situated on the frontiers of Laconia and oligarchically governed, was tenaciously attached to Sparta. |