Definition of Oligarchic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy.

Exact synonyms: Oligarchical
Derivative terms: Oligarch, Oligarchy, Oligarchy
Partainyms: Oligarchy, Oligarchy

Definition of Oligarchic

1. a. Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few.

Definition of Oligarchic

1. Adjective. of or pertaining to oligarchy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oligarchic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligarchic

olibanum
olibanums
olibene
olicook
olicooks
olid
olig-
oligaemia
oligaemic
oligaemic shock
oligamnios
oligandrous
oliganthous
oligarch
oligarchal
oligarchic (current term)
oligarchical
oligarchically
oligarchies
oligarchs
oligarchy
olighemia
olighidria
oligist
oligistic
oligists
oligo
oligo-
oligo-isomaltosaccharide synthase
oligoacene

Literary usage of Oligarchic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"oligarchic government was doubtless, in Theban Weakness eyes, one of the ancestral principles of the Boeotian constitution,4 of the ?e~ hardly less ..."

2. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"—The Law of Maximum Production Against oligarchic Restriction. ... There can only be one result from a system of oligarchic restriction, operating through ..."

3. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"APPENDI The oligarchic revolution at Athens: the provisional and the ... and practice of oligarchic government we have no material more interesting or ..."

4. History of Federal Government from the Foundation of the Achaian League to by Edward Augustus Freeman (1863)
"oligarchic government was mocratic doubtless, in Theban eyes, one of the ancestral principles °^ *nc Boeotian constitution,1 hardly less important than the ..."

5. History of Federal Government from the Foundation of the Achaian League to by Edward Augustus Freeman (1863)
"oligarchic Hitherto Boeotia had been less affected than most parts find Democratic of Greece by the struggles of oligarchic and democratic parties. ..."

6. The Athenian Empire by George William Cox (1888)
"It was therefore necessary to set in order the oligarchic machinery without which the foundations of democracy could not be overthrown. ..."

7. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"THE oligarchic REVOLUTION At Athens in these months there was distress, fear, and dis- The content. How deeply the people felt the pressure of the long war ..."

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