agrodespotic
now rare
adjective
Of, relating to, or characterized by the rule of a despotic bureaucracy in control of the water supply over a society of small-scale agricultural producers.
- Associated originally and chiefly with East Asian societies dependent on large-scale, state-controlled hydraulic works..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988).
- set list
- set menu
- set-net
- set-netter
- set off
- seton
- set one's cap at (or for)
- set oneself up as
- set one's face against
- set one's heart (or hopes) on
- set one's sights on
- set one's teeth
- set on (or upon)
- Seton, St. Elizabeth Ann
- set (or lay or put) store by (or on)
- set (or put) one's hand to
- set (or put) one's seal to (or on)
- set (or rock) someone back on their heels
- setose
- influenza bacillus
- influenzaed
- influenzal
- influenza virus
- influenzoid
- influx