单词 | pantisocracy |
释义 | Pantisocracyn. Now chiefly historical. 1. A form of social organization in which all members are equal in social position and responsibility, usually also having property in common; a political doctrine advocating this.Chiefly with reference to the political ideas of a group of writers and intellectuals of the 1790s, including Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > by all equally isocracy1652 Pantisocracy1794 pantarchy1870 1794 R. Southey Let. 7 Sept. (1965) I. 75 We preached Pantisocracy and Aspheterism..two new words, the first signifying the equal government of all—and the other—the generalization of individual property. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xciii. 55 All are not moralists, like Southey, when He prated to the world of ‘Pantisocrasy’. 1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iv. 135 Southey and Coleridge..had dreamed of pantisocracy on the banks of the Susquehanna. 1991 Stud. Eng. Lit. 47 Coleridge's Pantisocracy includes first the idea of the abolition of property, second the notion of a brotherhood of man and animals, and third the idea of a ‘child of Nature’. 2. A utopian community based on this ideal, in which all are equal and all rule; spec. the community which Southey and Coleridge at one time planned to establish on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in a perfect society > example of Zion1530 utopia1533 Pantisocracy1794 1794 S. T. Coleridge in London Co-operative Mag. Apr. 133 (title) On the prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance viii. 77 You might have taken us for the denizens of Grub-street, intent on getting a comfortable livelihood by agricultural labor; or, Coleridge's projected Pantisocracy in full experiment;..or anything else that was miserably out at elbows. 1939 John o' London's Weekly 2 June 303/2 Having tired of her idea that Hogg, Peacock, Shelley and others should live happily together as a ‘Pantisocracy’, an ‘Association of Philanthropists’, she decided to set her cap at the notorious figure of Byron. 1990 Wilson Q. Autumn 90/1 Coleridge's most famous attempt to unite the ideal and the real was his scheme..to form a commune, Pantisocracy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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