Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Government by the masses; mob rule.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rule or ascendancy of the multitude or common people; mobocracy; mob-rule.
Wiktionary
- n. Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy;
mob rule .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses
Etymologies
- French ochlocratie, from Greek okhlokratiā : okhlos, mob; see wegh- in Indo-European roots + -kratiā, -cracy.
Examples
“a democracy that departed from the civil and political equality which was its supposed basis, and gave ascendancy to a faction, was sometimes designated by the term ochlocracy, or the dominion of the rabble.”
“The latter is rightly called "ochlocracy" -- mob rule.”
“If we lived in a mobocracy (also known as ochlocracy) we would vote and the majority would rule on every little issue.”
“ochlocracy," or government by the mob, in which the numbers have no real share: an oligarchy of the fiercest, the noisiest, the rashest, and the most shameless, which is surely swallowed up either by a despotism, as in”
“This is called grandstanding for the sake of ochlocracy.”
“There can be ochlocracy in bicameral systems & democracy in unicameral ones. urgs Says:”
“Democratic process in pre-enlightenment society inevitably produces the worst kind of tyranny: tyranny of the fanatical mob what Plato named “ochlocracy”.”
Obama and the law: about that little thing called “procedure”
“According to Polybius, the kyklos, or political cycle, rotates through three forms of government — democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy — and the degenerate forms of each of those three — ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny:”
“Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy.”
“Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ochlocracy’.
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Forms of government
tyranny, tribal, totalitarianism, timocracy, theocracy, thallassocracy, cyberocracy, technocracy, sociocracy, socialist state, republic, puppet state and 37 more...
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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Machiavelli's list
Machiavellian terminology
rastaquouere, abulia, predeliction, predisposition, callipygian, kakistocracy, ochlocracy, diepnophilia, omniscient
bilby Duke of Cumberland pretty much put an end to that. Jun 14, 2008
yarb Or rule by scotsmen. Jun 14, 2008
asativum This sounds like rule by punctuality. Jun 14, 2008