gerontocraticadj.
/dʒɛˌrɒntəʊˈkratɪk/ Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a gerontocracy.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [adjective] > of old men
gerontarchical1884
gerontocratic1950
1950 African Studies Dec. 159 Some anthropologists are of the opinion that gerontocratic age-groups are an invention of the Negro.
1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound ii. 40 Many youths looked forward to migrant labour as an exciting liberation from parental and gerontocratic control.
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society iii. 81 Grandparents..belong to the generation which exerts gerontocratic political and jural authority in the matrilineal village.
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