单词 | democratical |
释义 | democraticaladj.n. Now rare. A. adj. = democratic adj. 1. 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 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 389 The gouernment of the common wealth, ought not to be monarchical, but either democratical, or Aristocratical. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 26 It is Monarchicall, in regarde of our head Christ, Aristocraticall in the Eldership, and Democraticall in the people. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 4v Ostracismes practiced in those Democraticall and Popular states of elder times. 1680 C. F. Let. to Duke of Monmouth 2 The Democratical Man, that is never quiet under any Government. 1765 D. Hume Let. 28 Dec. (1932) I. 528 The Council of Berne, frightened for his Neighbourhood, on account of his democratical, more than his religious Principles, ordered him..to withdraw from their State. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 460 I abhor his Whiggish democratical notions and propensities. 1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 356 Their unscrupulousness in using the arbitrary powers of democratical government. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxiv. 231 The levy was in fact as democratical and as equalising as..on that memorable occasion. 1945 Pacific Hist. Rev. 14 232 A good example is the author's contrast of dictatorial and democratical concepts in college administration. 1990 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 1 Sept. Not for them too much democratical nonsense... It was a property owners' constituency. = democrat n. 1a. Obsolete. 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 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 Aristocraticalls and Democraticalls of old time in Greece. 1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth (unauthorized ed.) 27 The thing which those Democraticals chiefly then aimed at, was to force the King to call a parliament. 1714 E. Lewis Let. 6 July in J. Swift Corr. (1963) II. 54 He is in with the Democraticals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1574 |
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