Pantisocracy
/ˌpantɪˈsɒkrəsi
/noun [mass noun]
A form of utopian social organization in which all are equal in social position and responsibility.Priestley left his home - what was left of it - went to London, and in 1794 emigrated to the banks of the Susquehanna River where he and other intellectuals tried to set up a utopian community (Pantisocracy)....
- [Coleridge and Southey] threw themselves into planning Pantisocracy: an experimental and ideal community founded on human reason and directed toward human perfection.
- Coleridge even dreamt up a new word "Pantisocracy" to describe their new society: it meant "equal rule by all."
Derivatives
Pantisocratic
- He became friendly with S. T. Coleridge and together they planned their Pantisocratic society.
- The result of Taylor's criticism was that when Southey began to revise and recast Madoc, he sought to eliminate all trace of Pantisocratic conceptions.
- Bristol was to be from where the Pantisocratic plans were to be finalized and from where the founding members would board a sailing ship for America.
Origin
Late 18th century: from panto- 'all' + Greek isokratia 'equality of power'.
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- make a present of
- make a production of
- make a (quick) quid
- make a rod for one's own back
- (make a) run for it
- make a spectacle of oneself
- make a splash
- make a virtue of
- make away with
- make a —— fist of
- makebate
- make-bate
- make-before-break
- make-belief
- make-believe
- make book
- make (both) ends meet
- make-break
- make capital out of
- make certain
- make common cause
- make conversation
- make do
- make do and mend