Oligarchical
[ɒlɪɡɑ:kɪkəl]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few.
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Examples
- And the avaricious, I said, is the oligarchical youth? Plato. The Republic.
- Again, let us see how the democratical man grows out of the oligarchical: the following, as I suspect, is commonly the process. Plato. The Republic.
- And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? Plato. The Republic.
- Well, I said, and in oligarchical States do you not find paupers? Plato. The Republic.
- Is not this the way--he is the son of the miserly and oligarchical father who has trained him in his own habits? Plato. The Republic.
- Does not the timocratical man change into the oligarchical on this wise? Plato. The Republic.
- Can we any longer doubt, then, that the miser and money-maker answers to the oligarchical State? Plato. The Republic.
- Next comes democracy and the democratic man, out of oligarchy and the oligarchical man. Plato. The Republic.
- These are never far apart; and in oligarchical cities, where nearly everybody is a pauper who is not a ruler, you will find abundance of both. Plato. The Republic.
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