Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to timocracy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.

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  • adjective Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.

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Examples

  • The constitutions are monarchy, aristocracy, and thirdly that which is based on a property qualification, which it seems appropriate to call timocratic, though most people are wont to call it polity.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • The constitutions are monarchy, aristocracy, and thirdly that which is based on a property qualification, which it seems appropriate to call timocratic, though most people are wont to call it polity.

    The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

  • Plato classified such leaders as timocratic, ruling by pride and honor; plutocratic, ruling by wealth; democratic, ruling by popular consent on the basis of equality; and tyrannical, ruling by coercion Shorey, 1933.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Plato classified such leaders as timocratic, ruling by pride and honor; plutocratic, ruling by wealth; democratic, ruling by popular consent on the basis of equality; and tyrannical, ruling by coercion Shorey, 1933.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • But there is obviously no connection between the manner in which the timocratic State springs out of the ideal, and the mere accident by which the timocratic man is the son of a retired statesman.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • The Spartans, though an unpoetical race, were nevertheless lovers of poetry; they had been stirred by the Elegiac strains of Tyrtaeus, they had crowded around Hippias to hear his recitals of Homer; but in this they resembled the citizens of the timocratic rather than of the ideal State.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • I.ii.aA timocratic government is one in which political power is directly proportional to property ownership.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • From the seventh to the fifth centuries, there was a steady, if sometimes slow, advancement of Greek material and intellectual culture 1.13.1, as the protective practice of timocratic government and near-ritual infantry fighting prevented most political upheavals and limited the damage caused by frequent wars.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • I.ii.aA timocratic government is one in which political power is directly proportional to property ownership.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • From the seventh to the fifth centuries, there was a steady, if sometimes slow, advancement of Greek material and intellectual culture 1.13.1, as the protective practice of timocratic government and near-ritual infantry fighting prevented most political upheavals and limited the damage caused by frequent wars.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

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