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aristocrat|ˈærɪstəʊˌkræt, əˈrɪstəkræt|
[a. F. aristocrate (not on Gr. analogies), f. aristocrat-ie, -ique. A popular formation of the French Revolution.]
A member of an aristocracy; strictly, one of a ruling oligarchy; hence, one of a patrician order, a noble; occasionally, one who favours an aristocratic form of government (opposed to democrat).
1789Belsham Ess. II. xl. 473 The genuine spirit of the haughty aristocrate. 1790W. Taylor Let. fr. Paris in Robberds Mem. I. 69 All Paris is still in a ferment..These handbills and pamphlets..all tend to accuse the aristocrats of little or great treasons. 1792A. Young Trav. France 225 Their excellencies, the aristocrats of Venice. 1793Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 151 The royalists of France, or as they are (perhaps as properly) called, the aristocrats. 1794Coleridge in Own Times III. 968 In came that fierce Aristocrat, Our pursy woollen-draper. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 408 The aristocrat-made law. 1849Grote Greece ii. xlvii. VI. 26 So violent and pointed did the scission of aristocrats and democrats become.
b. fig.
1883G. Allen in Knowledge 3 Aug. 65/2 The honey-loving aristocrats of the insect world.
c. attrib. quasi-adj.
1873Trollope Australia I. 475 The class of which I am now speaking is an aristocrat class. |