1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 112 It has elicited a strong Conservative demonstration, and proved that out of the rabble-ocracy (for everything is an ocracy now) his power is anything but unlimited.

1894 G. B. Shaw in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 489 Social-Democracy, like all other ‘-ocracies’, will have a great deal more trouble with its idle and worthless members than with its able ones.

1894 Speaker 14 July 40/2 [To] erect the great pillar of human brotherhood on the ruins of all the ‘ocracies’.

1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism xliii. 166 If it be still necessary to call the rich an ocracy of any kind, they must be called a plutocracy.

1963 F. W. Frey in L. W. Pye Communications & Polit. Devel. xvii. 299 Movement towards ‘democracy’..or whatever one's preferred..‘ocracy’ happens to be.

1984 Sunday Tel. 7 Oct. 16/8 He has a profound contempt for all ‘ocracies’ and ‘isms,’ above all American liberalism.