Word Meanings - OLIGARCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to OLIGARCHY)
- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - WHEREIN
1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet - HANDSPRING
A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - SUPREME
Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - HANDSOMELY
Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner. - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - DOMINEERING
Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag. Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - WHEREINTO
1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - OVERRULING
Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - FERULIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid. - CHONDRULE
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - PURULENCE; PURULENCY
The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot. - TORULA
A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - SERRULATION
1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.