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Definition of Ochlocratic
1. a. Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic.
Definition of Ochlocratic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to ochlocracy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ochlocratic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ochlocratic
Literary usage of Ochlocratic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Original by Thomas Walker (1850)
"The inevitable tendency of the centralization principle, like the ochlocratic,
though more insidiously, is to despotism. The first is the favourite of those ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1872)
"... the ochlocratic bubble he bad been blowing—were rapidly converting Danton, in
his last days, into something as like an easy-going Conservative country ..."
3. The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia by John Henry Augustus Bomberger, Johann Jakob Herzog (1860)
"The danger connected with the ochlocratic principle and element, ... Thus the
original ochlocratic, or rather democratic principle and clement passed over ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... of them as their public life passed into the ochlocratic stage, and which
could not but impair their military discipline and defensive strength. ..."
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