单词 | peopledom |
释义 | peopledomn. A province, commune; spec. (in ancient Greece) a deme. Also: a democracy (as opposed to a kingdom). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] purprisea1275 member?a1425 precinct1447 lordshipa1450 captainate1593 region1593 partiality1601 division1640 peopledom1657 convent1658 district1667 mastership1707 superintendency1798 area1849 society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > state ruled by the people democracy1539 commonwealth1542 state1565 free state1567 commonalty1604 republic1604 people-state1606 populacy1632 peopledom1657 commonality1680 rep1701 commonweal1733 pantarchy1870 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. ii. i. 119 Greece..was divided into many several Peopledoms [It. in molti popoli diuisa]. 1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 333 It is the people now which make the King; if so, why ever had we any Kingdoms? why were they not called Peopledoms? 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) ii. 80 And hope the Kingdom will become, In time, a glorious Peopledom. 1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 173 Volkstum und Weltmacht, ‘peopledom and worldmight’, or, in plain English, the development of nationality and world-powers in history. 1999 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 18 Dec. a4 He then ordered termination of the lives of all firstborn males in the peopledom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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