ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Aristarchy

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Aristarchy is a noun meaning Government by the best rulers.

Meaning

Government by the best rulers.

More Meanings

  1. A body of such rulers.

Example Sentences

All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above all things, and aristarchy, live forever. But woe to tyrants, mobs, aristocracy, anarchy, and toryism […]
[A Presbyterian session] is […] a court of monarchs, or aristarchs, who hold their office for life; a limited monarchy […] or, more strictly, an aristarchy of rulers appointed for life, and ruling on the principle of elective aristarchy.

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Related dictionary entries include aristocracy, aristodemocracy, aristocratism, aristocraticism, aristocrat, optimacy.

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