kakistocracyn.

/kakɪˈstɒkrəsi/

Etymology: < Greek κάκιστος worst + -κρατία rule, after aristocracy.

The government of a state by the worst citizens.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of the worst people

kakistocracy1829

1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin vi. 93 Our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity.

1876 J. R. Lowell Lett. II. vii. 179 Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. 286 The..régime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy.

Derivatives

† kakistoˈcratical adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. vi. 82 But when the men in whose hands the government of the Church is, are bad; then it is τῶν κακίστων κράτος, or Kakistocraticall.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	kakistocracy
释义	kakistocracyn. /kakɪˈstɒkrəsi/ Etymology: < Greek κάκιστος worst + -κρατία rule, after aristocracy. The government of a state by the worst citizens. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of the worst people kakistocracy1829 1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin vi. 93 Our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity. 1876 J. R. Lowell Lett. II. vii. 179 Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. 286 The..régime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy. Derivatives † kakistoˈcratical adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. vi. 82 But when the men in whose hands the government of the Church is, are bad; then it is τῶν κακίστων κράτος, or Kakistocraticall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1641
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