Meaning of aristarchy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Government by the best rulers.
   countable, uncountable
2. A body of such rulers.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above all things, and aristarchy, live forever. But woe to tyrants, mobs, aristocracy, anarchy, and toryism […]”

“[A Presbyterian session] is […] a court of monarchs, or aristarchs, who hold their office for life; a limited monarchy […] or, more strictly, an aristarchy of rulers appointed for life, and ruling on the principle of elective aristarchy.”

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