Word Meanings - OLIGARCHIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.

Related words: (words related to OLIGARCHIST)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• OLIGARCHY
  A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.