democraticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌdɛməˈkratɪk/, U.S.

/ˌdɛməˈkrædɪk/

Forms: 1500s democraticke, 1500s–1800s democratick, 1600s daemocratick, 1600s democratique, 1600s– democratic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French democratique; Latin democraticus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French democratique (French démocratique) of or relating to democracy, characterized by or consistent with the principles of democracy (1370; the extended use in sense A. 1b is not dated in dictionaries of French), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin democraticus of or relating to democracy (13th cent.), also as noun in sense ‘democrat’ (a1540) < ancient Greek δημοκρατικός of or for a democracy, (of a person) favouring or suited to democracy < δημοκρατία democracy n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Spanish democrático (c1625), Portuguese democrático (1657), Italian democratico (a1673); also German demokratisch (1592). Compare democratical adj., democratical n., and (with the use as noun) democrat n.

A. adj.

a. Of or relating to democracy; characterized by or consistent with the principles of democracy; having democracy as a system of government; advocating or supporting democracy or its principles. Also occasionally: of or relating to the common or ordinary people in a state or polity (cf. democracy n. 2).anti-, bourgeois, Christian, liberal, social democratic: see the first element. Cf. also democratic socialism n. and democratic socialist n. and adj. Also in the names of political parties (cf., e.g., NDP n. at N n. Initialisms 1, S.D.P. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1); see also Democratic Party n. at Compounds.See note at democracy n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adjective]

democratic1569

democratian1574

democratical1574

direct1629

democrat1794

democratized1797

democratizing1797

liberal democratic1868

society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting democracy or types of

democratic1790

Pantisocratic1794

liberal democratic1833

bourgeois-democratic1918

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. v. f. 49^v They assembled and mette togethers as they commonly doe in Cities gouerned by the best and worshipfullest Citizens, after the maner Democraticke [Fr. en forme de Democracie].

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 252 Aristocratick Gouernment, nor Democratick pleasde.

1601 T. Powell Passionate Poet sig. B3^v Atheisme..making of deuotion an extent, Exceeds a Democraticke gouernement, As not sufficient spacious to admit A generall weale of equallisde conscript.

1641 Disc. conc. Puritans 15 Some fiery-spirited Ministers..did fancie to themselves a democratick forme of policy.

1713 C. Gildon Soupirs de la Grande Bretagne 85 Caesar placed it [sc. the Commonwealth] in the People, or the Democratic Part.

1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague III. cxxviii. 20 Democratic freedom and equal distribution of property.

1790 T. Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 433 All is in a flame between the Aristocratic and Democratic parties [in France].

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 255 The most democratic of nations is religious at heart.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 75 The monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic branches of our constitution.

1919 E. Wharton Let. 19 July (1988) 424 But his tiresome distinction between aristocratic & democratic forms (as if democratic were the necessary synonym of illiteracy) rather blurs & befogs his incidentally just comments.

1938 Newsweek 3 Oct. 37/3 Management leaders representing the world's democratic countries agreed that free enterprise, not government control, is the key to better times.

1977 E. Powell in Hansard Commons 14 Nov. 91 Let us by all means devolve, and devolve to democratic assemblies, the administration of the laws which are made in this House and of the policies which are framed in this House.

1999 Independent 24 Mar. ii. 5/1 [Sikhism] advocated democratic decision-making, individualism and the rejection of feudalism and tyranny.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Oct. a19/3 Occupy Wall Street..embodies a national frustration with broken democratic institutions.

b. Characterized by or favouring social equality; egalitarian; capable of being used, accessed, or enjoyed by anyone.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > co-equal or of the same measure or standing

eveneOE

evenmetec1175

egallc1374

coequala1475

equal1526

fellowlike1526

democratic1811

1811 Monthly Anthol. June 367 The gallows in England is a very democratick sort of machine. There is no greater leveller of distinctions.

1826 Examiner 8 Jan. 19/2 He admired, notwithstanding, the American institutions, but he did not consider them of so democratic a nature as is generally imagined. He found, he said, many Englishmen and English writers more embued with liberal notions than those Americans and American authors with whom he was acquainted.

1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 578/2 All cheap and especially all students' restaurants are most democratic places. Nobody hesitates to chat with his neighbor.

1919 Boys' Life May 30/2 Scouting is democratic. All scouts start on the same basis and have the same chance. The progress of each depends wholly on himself.

1936 H. B. Martin 50 Years Amer. Golf xiv. 191 Golf had become more or less democratic.

1982 U. Bentley Nat. Order (1983) 31 I was horrified to discover that a system of democratic dining reigned, whereby the staff were expected to pepper themselves among the boys.

1998 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 27 Sept. 2 It's the most democratic of pastimes, he says, and cuts across social barriers like nobody's business.

2011 New Yorker 14 Feb. 124/3 [They] believe that we're on the brink of a new utopia, where information will be free and democratic,..love will reign, and cookies will bake themselves.

2. U.S. Politics. Usually with capital initial. Of, relating to, or supporting the Democratic Party (Democratic Party n. at Compounds).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > Democratic Party

Demo1801

democratic1802

Dem1810

1802 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 27 Apr. 130/3 The hand bill signed ‘A Republican’..was, it seems, issued forth in vast numbers by the Democratic committee.

1812 in Niles' Reg. 96 Harford, Baltimore, Washington and Queen-Anns have returned 4 Democratic members..Federal majority [in Maryland House] 32.

1857 Chicago Tribune 17 Oct. One hundred and ten Winnebago Indians, wearing their blankets, voted the Democratic ticket.

1880 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 8 Dec. New York is trying to get rid of its Democratic boss, John Kelly.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 65/2 They will not be able to do much more with the greater Democratic majority they have, even if they wanted to.

1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential iii. xxvi. 319 Many of the cities are Democratic in Republican counties.

1990 J. Welch Indian Lawyer 116 She saw him three or four times during the next five years—once in a bookstore..and then at a couple of Democratic fund-raisers.

2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 69/1 No Bushbashing at the Democratic Convention!

B. n.

Originally: = democrat n. 1a. Now chiefly U.S. Politics (with capital initial): = democrat n. 2. Usually in plural.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism > adherent of

democratian1651

democratical1651

democratic1659

democrat1788

democratist1790

blackneb1815

demolater1886

demomaniac1886

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 232 The democratics of our age went upon another principle.

1681 Pref. to Heylyn's De Jure Paritatis Episcoporum in P. Heylyn Κειμηλια Έκκλησιαστικα sig. Bbbbb^v This argument is known too well by our Anti-Episcopal Democraticks.

1735 T. Breviter No Democracy in Church 58 I believe our Church Democraticks will be puzzled to produce near so many of Bishops ordained by the People.

1792 Thoughts Origin & Excellence Regal Govt. sig. A 2 The two principles adopted by the modern sect of democratics.

1836 W. Dyott Diary 16 Dec. (1907) II. 244 And joins as a good Conservative in the hearty effort being made to ‘frustrate the knavish tricks’ of the growing democraticks.

1857 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 296 The task was not the subjugation of three or four well-educated French gentlemen, it was the change of opinion among a thousand Federalists, Democratics, Know-Nothings, Mormonites, and their organs.

1905 E. S. Riley Hist. Gen. Assembly Maryland lxxx. 408 The Democratics had divided, and part of them supported the election of the republican candidate for Governor.

1974 Evening News (Edinb.) 11 Apr. 10/7 We are democratics and we have to do it. I never dreamed we would get on so well. We are winning and we are going to keep on winning.

2005 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 June a20 The mayor..and other Democratics have fought to ensure that illegals will not be barred from obtaining driver's licenses and immigration status.

Compounds

democratic centralism n. [after Russian demokratičeskij centralizm (1906 in Lenin)] Politics (originally in Leninist theory and practice) a system of organization, esp. of communist parties, in which policy is decided centrally by an elected congress, and is binding on all members.Although in theory the system allows for democratic participation in policy-making, in practice criticism of positions espoused by party leaders has been viewed as disloyal by Marxist–Leninist regimes.

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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > centralism > type of

centralism1825

synœcism1898

democratic centralism1920

1920 2nd. Congr. Communist Internat. (U.S. Government Printing Office) 93 The Communist Party must be built on the basis of democratic centralism. The main principles of democratic centralism are the election of the upper body by the lower body; the absolute compulsory nature of the decisions of the upper body for the lower [etc.].

1951 Britannica Bk. of Year 686/1 Democratic centralism, a Communist system of government in which recommendations are passed upwards through successive stages of popular assemblies.

1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 22 Mr Michael Foot..charged the Gaitskellites with Soviet-style ‘democratic centralism’ in running the party.

1987 tr. M. Gorbachev Perestroika i. i. 34 Perestroika is..the revival and development of the principles of democratic centralism in running the national economy.

2012 Morning Star (Nexis) 24 Feb. (headline) Democratic centralism the way to achieve change.

democratic deficit n. a perceived deficiency in the way a particular democratic government, institution, etc., functions in relation to the principles of democracy, esp. with regard to a lack of accountability and control over the process of policy-making.Originally and chiefly in the context of the institutions and legislation of the European Union or its predecessors.

ΚΠ

1973 Times 10 Jan. 15/1 The European Parliament cannot be confined to a consultative role without perpetuating the present democratic deficit of the Communities.

1979 D. Marquand Parl. for Europe iii. 66 The resulting ‘democratic deficit’ would not be acceptable in a Community committed to democratic principles.

1990 New Scientist 3 Feb. 23/3 In Brussels-speak, this is called the ‘democratic deficit’. It means that average citizens, and average scientists, have an Albanian's chance of influencing public policy.

2006 Independent 30 May (Extra section) 1/2 And if they have democratic forms, they suffer from a serious ‘democratic deficit’ that deprives their formal democratic institutions of real substance.

Democratic Party n. U.S. Politics one of the main American political parties (the other now being the Republican Party), now a predominantly progressive or socially liberal party, tending to promote social reform, minority rights, and the role of a strong central government; cf. Republican Party n. at republican adj. and n. Compounds 1.The original Democratic Party (also known as the Anti-Federal Party, the Republican Party (see republican adj. 3a(b)), and the Democratic Republican Party) was founded in the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to oppose the policies of the Federalist Party (see federalist adj. 2), esp. by favouring states' rights, a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and the extension of slave territory. In the 1820s, this party split into factions, one of which became the modern Democratic Party (under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837), in opposition first to the Whig Party (see Whig n.² 4b) then, from the 1850s, to the modern Republican Party.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party

Democratic Party1795

Grand Old Party1858

1795 Albany (N.Y.) Gaz. 14 Aug. As soon as the treaty was published, Mr. Jay [sc. John Jay] must be severely reprimanded, by the scriblers [sic] of the Democratic party, from New-Hampshire to Georgia, guillotined in effigy at New-York, burnt at Philadelphia.

1800 London Packet 26 Dec. The 12 votes of New York were for Jefferson and Burr..and should the Senate of Pennsylvania consent to a joint ballot, the democratic party will have 15 votes there.

1812 S. MacCormack View State of Parties in U.S. i. 42 The ascendancy of the democratic party in America, is chiefly owing to its having embraced the political principles most consonant to the sentiments and feelings of a rude and fierce democracy.

1839 W. L. Garrison in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 312 Both the Whig and Democratic parties have consulted the wishes of abolitionists.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liii. 340 The autonomy of communities..has been the watchword of the Democratic party.

1926 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 27 Oct. 8/1 Each mid-cycle decrease of registration is favorable to the Democratic party.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People viii. 118 With the Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal.., the Negro's allegiance swung radically and quickly toward the Democratic Party.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 47/3 Almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term.

† democratic wagon n. North American Obsolete = democrat wagon n. at democrat n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1849 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1848 8 467 The mechanic arts were represented by 2 lumber wagons, 1 buggy, 1 democratic wagon, 1 specimen of book-binding, 4 plows, 1 gang plow, [etc.].

1877 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 40 39 When the accident happened, the plaintiffs were riding in what the witnesses describe as a light democratic wagon with two seats, the husband sitting on the front seat driving.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	democratic
释义	democraticadj.n. Brit. /ˌdɛməˈkratɪk/, U.S. /ˌdɛməˈkrædɪk/ Forms: 1500s democraticke, 1500s–1800s democratick, 1600s daemocratick, 1600s democratique, 1600s– democratic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French democratique; Latin democraticus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French democratique (French démocratique) of or relating to democracy, characterized by or consistent with the principles of democracy (1370; the extended use in sense A. 1b is not dated in dictionaries of French), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin democraticus of or relating to democracy (13th cent.), also as noun in sense ‘democrat’ (a1540) < ancient Greek δημοκρατικός of or for a democracy, (of a person) favouring or suited to democracy < δημοκρατία democracy n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Spanish democrático (c1625), Portuguese democrático (1657), Italian democratico (a1673); also German demokratisch (1592). Compare democratical adj., democratical n., and (with the use as noun) democrat n. A. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to democracy; characterized by or consistent with the principles of democracy; having democracy as a system of government; advocating or supporting democracy or its principles. Also occasionally: of or relating to the common or ordinary people in a state or polity (cf. democracy n. 2).anti-, bourgeois, Christian, liberal, social democratic: see the first element. Cf. also democratic socialism n. and democratic socialist n. and adj. Also in the names of political parties (cf., e.g., NDP n. at N n. Initialisms 1, S.D.P. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1); see also Democratic Party n. at Compounds.See note at democracy n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adjective] democratic1569 democratian1574 democratical1574 direct1629 democrat1794 democratized1797 democratizing1797 liberal democratic1868 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting democracy or types of democratic1790 Pantisocratic1794 liberal democratic1833 bourgeois-democratic1918 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. v. f. 49^v They assembled and mette togethers as they commonly doe in Cities gouerned by the best and worshipfullest Citizens, after the maner Democraticke [Fr. en forme de Democracie]. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 252 Aristocratick Gouernment, nor Democratick pleasde. 1601 T. Powell Passionate Poet sig. B3^v Atheisme..making of deuotion an extent, Exceeds a Democraticke gouernement, As not sufficient spacious to admit A generall weale of equallisde conscript. 1641 Disc. conc. Puritans 15 Some fiery-spirited Ministers..did fancie to themselves a democratick forme of policy. 1713 C. Gildon Soupirs de la Grande Bretagne 85 Caesar placed it [sc. the Commonwealth] in the People, or the Democratic Part. 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague III. cxxviii. 20 Democratic freedom and equal distribution of property. 1790 T. Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 433 All is in a flame between the Aristocratic and Democratic parties [in France]. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 255 The most democratic of nations is religious at heart. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 75 The monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic branches of our constitution. 1919 E. Wharton Let. 19 July (1988) 424 But his tiresome distinction between aristocratic & democratic forms (as if democratic were the necessary synonym of illiteracy) rather blurs & befogs his incidentally just comments. 1938 Newsweek 3 Oct. 37/3 Management leaders representing the world's democratic countries agreed that free enterprise, not government control, is the key to better times. 1977 E. Powell in Hansard Commons 14 Nov. 91 Let us by all means devolve, and devolve to democratic assemblies, the administration of the laws which are made in this House and of the policies which are framed in this House. 1999 Independent 24 Mar. ii. 5/1 [Sikhism] advocated democratic decision-making, individualism and the rejection of feudalism and tyranny. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Oct. a19/3 Occupy Wall Street..embodies a national frustration with broken democratic institutions. b. Characterized by or favouring social equality; egalitarian; capable of being used, accessed, or enjoyed by anyone. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > co-equal or of the same measure or standing eveneOE evenmetec1175 egallc1374 coequala1475 equal1526 fellowlike1526 democratic1811 1811 Monthly Anthol. June 367 The gallows in England is a very democratick sort of machine. There is no greater leveller of distinctions. 1826 Examiner 8 Jan. 19/2 He admired, notwithstanding, the American institutions, but he did not consider them of so democratic a nature as is generally imagined. He found, he said, many Englishmen and English writers more embued with liberal notions than those Americans and American authors with whom he was acquainted. 1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 578/2 All cheap and especially all students' restaurants are most democratic places. Nobody hesitates to chat with his neighbor. 1919 Boys' Life May 30/2 Scouting is democratic. All scouts start on the same basis and have the same chance. The progress of each depends wholly on himself. 1936 H. B. Martin 50 Years Amer. Golf xiv. 191 Golf had become more or less democratic. 1982 U. Bentley Nat. Order (1983) 31 I was horrified to discover that a system of democratic dining reigned, whereby the staff were expected to pepper themselves among the boys. 1998 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 27 Sept. 2 It's the most democratic of pastimes, he says, and cuts across social barriers like nobody's business. 2011 New Yorker 14 Feb. 124/3 [They] believe that we're on the brink of a new utopia, where information will be free and democratic,..love will reign, and cookies will bake themselves. 2. U.S. Politics. Usually with capital initial. Of, relating to, or supporting the Democratic Party (Democratic Party n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > Democratic Party Demo1801 democratic1802 Dem1810 1802 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 27 Apr. 130/3 The hand bill signed ‘A Republican’..was, it seems, issued forth in vast numbers by the Democratic committee. 1812 in Niles' Reg. 96 Harford, Baltimore, Washington and Queen-Anns have returned 4 Democratic members..Federal majority [in Maryland House] 32. 1857 Chicago Tribune 17 Oct. One hundred and ten Winnebago Indians, wearing their blankets, voted the Democratic ticket. 1880 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 8 Dec. New York is trying to get rid of its Democratic boss, John Kelly. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 65/2 They will not be able to do much more with the greater Democratic majority they have, even if they wanted to. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential iii. xxvi. 319 Many of the cities are Democratic in Republican counties. 1990 J. Welch Indian Lawyer 116 She saw him three or four times during the next five years—once in a bookstore..and then at a couple of Democratic fund-raisers. 2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 69/1 No Bushbashing at the Democratic Convention! B. n. Originally: = democrat n. 1a. Now chiefly U.S. Politics (with capital initial): = democrat n. 2. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism > adherent of democratian1651 democratical1651 democratic1659 democrat1788 democratist1790 blackneb1815 demolater1886 demomaniac1886 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 232 The democratics of our age went upon another principle. 1681 Pref. to Heylyn's De Jure Paritatis Episcoporum in P. Heylyn Κειμηλια Έκκλησιαστικα sig. Bbbbb^v This argument is known too well by our Anti-Episcopal Democraticks. 1735 T. Breviter No Democracy in Church 58 I believe our Church Democraticks will be puzzled to produce near so many of Bishops ordained by the People. 1792 Thoughts Origin & Excellence Regal Govt. sig. A 2 The two principles adopted by the modern sect of democratics. 1836 W. Dyott Diary 16 Dec. (1907) II. 244 And joins as a good Conservative in the hearty effort being made to ‘frustrate the knavish tricks’ of the growing democraticks. 1857 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 296 The task was not the subjugation of three or four well-educated French gentlemen, it was the change of opinion among a thousand Federalists, Democratics, Know-Nothings, Mormonites, and their organs. 1905 E. S. Riley Hist. Gen. Assembly Maryland lxxx. 408 The Democratics had divided, and part of them supported the election of the republican candidate for Governor. 1974 Evening News (Edinb.) 11 Apr. 10/7 We are democratics and we have to do it. I never dreamed we would get on so well. We are winning and we are going to keep on winning. 2005 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 June a20 The mayor..and other Democratics have fought to ensure that illegals will not be barred from obtaining driver's licenses and immigration status. Compounds democratic centralism n. [after Russian demokratičeskij centralizm (1906 in Lenin)] Politics (originally in Leninist theory and practice) a system of organization, esp. of communist parties, in which policy is decided centrally by an elected congress, and is binding on all members.Although in theory the system allows for democratic participation in policy-making, in practice criticism of positions espoused by party leaders has been viewed as disloyal by Marxist–Leninist regimes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > centralism > type of centralism1825 synœcism1898 democratic centralism1920 1920 2nd. Congr. Communist Internat. (U.S. Government Printing Office) 93 The Communist Party must be built on the basis of democratic centralism. The main principles of democratic centralism are the election of the upper body by the lower body; the absolute compulsory nature of the decisions of the upper body for the lower [etc.]. 1951 Britannica Bk. of Year 686/1 Democratic centralism, a Communist system of government in which recommendations are passed upwards through successive stages of popular assemblies. 1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 22 Mr Michael Foot..charged the Gaitskellites with Soviet-style ‘democratic centralism’ in running the party. 1987 tr. M. Gorbachev Perestroika i. i. 34 Perestroika is..the revival and development of the principles of democratic centralism in running the national economy. 2012 Morning Star (Nexis) 24 Feb. (headline) Democratic centralism the way to achieve change. democratic deficit n. a perceived deficiency in the way a particular democratic government, institution, etc., functions in relation to the principles of democracy, esp. with regard to a lack of accountability and control over the process of policy-making.Originally and chiefly in the context of the institutions and legislation of the European Union or its predecessors. ΚΠ 1973 Times 10 Jan. 15/1 The European Parliament cannot be confined to a consultative role without perpetuating the present democratic deficit of the Communities. 1979 D. Marquand Parl. for Europe iii. 66 The resulting ‘democratic deficit’ would not be acceptable in a Community committed to democratic principles. 1990 New Scientist 3 Feb. 23/3 In Brussels-speak, this is called the ‘democratic deficit’. It means that average citizens, and average scientists, have an Albanian's chance of influencing public policy. 2006 Independent 30 May (Extra section) 1/2 And if they have democratic forms, they suffer from a serious ‘democratic deficit’ that deprives their formal democratic institutions of real substance. Democratic Party n. U.S. Politics one of the main American political parties (the other now being the Republican Party), now a predominantly progressive or socially liberal party, tending to promote social reform, minority rights, and the role of a strong central government; cf. Republican Party n. at republican adj. and n. Compounds 1.The original Democratic Party (also known as the Anti-Federal Party, the Republican Party (see republican adj. 3a(b)), and the Democratic Republican Party) was founded in the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to oppose the policies of the Federalist Party (see federalist adj. 2), esp. by favouring states' rights, a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and the extension of slave territory. In the 1820s, this party split into factions, one of which became the modern Democratic Party (under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837), in opposition first to the Whig Party (see Whig n.² 4b) then, from the 1850s, to the modern Republican Party. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party Democratic Party1795 Grand Old Party1858 1795 Albany (N.Y.) Gaz. 14 Aug. As soon as the treaty was published, Mr. Jay [sc. John Jay] must be severely reprimanded, by the scriblers [sic] of the Democratic party, from New-Hampshire to Georgia, guillotined in effigy at New-York, burnt at Philadelphia. 1800 London Packet 26 Dec. The 12 votes of New York were for Jefferson and Burr..and should the Senate of Pennsylvania consent to a joint ballot, the democratic party will have 15 votes there. 1812 S. MacCormack View State of Parties in U.S. i. 42 The ascendancy of the democratic party in America, is chiefly owing to its having embraced the political principles most consonant to the sentiments and feelings of a rude and fierce democracy. 1839 W. L. Garrison in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 312 Both the Whig and Democratic parties have consulted the wishes of abolitionists. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liii. 340 The autonomy of communities..has been the watchword of the Democratic party. 1926 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 27 Oct. 8/1 Each mid-cycle decrease of registration is favorable to the Democratic party. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People viii. 118 With the Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal.., the Negro's allegiance swung radically and quickly toward the Democratic Party. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 47/3 Almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term. † democratic wagon n. North American Obsolete = democrat wagon n. at democrat n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1849 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1848 8 467 The mechanic arts were represented by 2 lumber wagons, 1 buggy, 1 democratic wagon, 1 specimen of book-binding, 4 plows, 1 gang plow, [etc.]. 1877 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 40 39 When the accident happened, the plaintiffs were riding in what the witnesses describe as a light democratic wagon with two seats, the husband sitting on the front seat driving. 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