Oligarch
['ɒlɪgɑːk] or ['ɑlə'gɑrk]
Definition
(n.) A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
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Examples
- The tyrant is the third removed from the oligarch, and has therefore, not a shadow of his pleasure, but the shadow of a shadow only. Plato. The Republic.
- He is the son of a miserly oligarch, and has been taught by him to restrain the love of unnecessary pleasures. Plato. The Republic.
- I assume, I said, that the tyrant is in the third place from the oligarch; the democrat was in the middle? Plato. The Republic.
- After this manner the democrat was generated out of the oligarch? Plato. The Republic.
- And the oligarch is third from the royal; since we count as one royal and aristocratical? Plato. The Republic.
- Democracy is the triumph of the masses over the oligarchs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. Plato. The Republic.
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