millocratn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪləkrat/, U.S.

/ˈmɪləˌkræt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.¹, -ocrat comb. form.

Etymology: < mill n.¹ + -ocrat comb. form. Compare slightly later millocracy n.

Now historical (somewhat depreciative).

Esp. in 19th-cent. Britain: a member of the body of mill owners regarded as a dominant or ruling class.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners > member of

millocrat1838

landocrat1893

1838 Times 12 July 4/3 The Millocrats would have the whole matter their own way.

1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong II. ii. 36 Millocrats who pile thousands upon thousands, and acres upon acres.

1851 W. E. Aytoun in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 70 227 I prefer a feudal baron to a modern millocrat.

1858 P. J. Bailey Age 5 Fundholders, landowners, farmers, bankers, millocrats.

1953 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 25 358/2 It [sc. commerce] benefited the great capitalist, the ‘millocrats’, whose great fortunes must have been made at someone else's expense.

Derivatives

† millocratism n. Obsolete rare the rule of the millocrats.

ΚΠ

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. xiii. iv. 334 The misery which accompanies the reign of millocratism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	millocrat
释义	millocratn. Brit. /ˈmɪləkrat/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌkræt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.¹, -ocrat comb. form. Etymology: < mill n.¹ + -ocrat comb. form. Compare slightly later millocracy n. Now historical (somewhat depreciative). Esp. in 19th-cent. Britain: a member of the body of mill owners regarded as a dominant or ruling class. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners > member of millocrat1838 landocrat1893 1838 Times 12 July 4/3 The Millocrats would have the whole matter their own way. 1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong II. ii. 36 Millocrats who pile thousands upon thousands, and acres upon acres. 1851 W. E. Aytoun in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 70 227 I prefer a feudal baron to a modern millocrat. 1858 P. J. Bailey Age 5 Fundholders, landowners, farmers, bankers, millocrats. 1953 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 25 358/2 It [sc. commerce] benefited the great capitalist, the ‘millocrats’, whose great fortunes must have been made at someone else's expense. Derivatives † millocratism n. Obsolete rare the rule of the millocrats. ΚΠ 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. xiii. iv. 334 The misery which accompanies the reign of millocratism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838
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