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Synonyms for oligarchic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ol-i-gahr-kik or ol-i-gahr-ki-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɒl ɪˈgɑr kɪk or ˌɒl ɪˈgɑr kɪ kəl

Définition of oligarchic

Origin :
  • 1640s, from Greek oligarkhikos, from oligarkhos, related to oligarkhia (see oligarchy). Related: Oligarchical.
  • adj governed by small group
Example sentences :
  • The oligarchic capitalists of Stolgoland have been plotting to attack us for years.
  • Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
  • Athens supported the democratic party, Sparta the oligarchic.
  • Extract from : « History Of Ancient Civilization » by Charles Seignobos
  • We are oligarchic in all things, from our parliament to our army.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II » by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Over most of Greece in each state the oligarchic faction favoured the Peloponnesian league, the democratic, Athens.
  • Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. » by Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
  • Thucydides knew only the independent city, oligarchic or democratic, and the city which would fain be independent but was not.
  • Extract from : « The Chief Periods of European History » by Edward A. Freeman
  • They became, one, the champion of the democracy; the other, the hope of the oligarchic faction.
  • Extract from : « History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 » by Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
  • But it was to be carried into practical effect by despotic or oligarchic methods.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of English Liberalism » by Walter Lyon Blease
  • Thus he had little difficulty in cutting down every institution that restricted his power, whether popular or oligarchic.
  • Extract from : « The Evolution of States » by J. M. Robertson
  • The monarchical form of government had yielded to the republican, but in its worst shape—the oligarchic.
  • Extract from : « Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • What the oligarchic faction did when triumphant, we see hereafter in the establishment of the Thirty Tyrants.
  • Extract from : « Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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