Meaning of critocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A system of rule by judges.
2. A system of rule by critics.

Examples

“In the United States it may be called a Plutarchy or pure rule⟳ of money with a Critocracy or government by Judges because through the complicated machinery of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent⟳ the people's rule⟳ ...”

“Ye are not come⟳ to the mount⟳ that cannot be touched and fire, and smoke⟳ and deep darkness in so much that Moses himself said I exceedingly quake and fear, but ye are come⟳ unto Mount⟳ Zion and the new covenant unto the general assembly of the critocracy or government of judges that it was popularly accepted that judges were unjust.”

“One is driven to conclude⟳ that the authority to restrain democratic power under our constitutional order⟳ is reserved to the critocracy.”

“How can we fail⟳ to notice⟳ that what was once a federal republic, then more or less a mass democracy, has become⟳ a critocracy, a land⟳ where judges rule⟳?”

“Literature and the literary critocracy have⟳ an advantage over the visual arts, they can be read⟳ and enjoyed at leisure in direct⟳ and frequent contact⟳ with the author; but for paintings, sculpture and architecture we have⟳ to get⟳ up and go […]”

“The problem is that Authority is likely to be abused; and hence Enright's frequent attacks on the “critocracy,” on the fetish that has been made of Eliot's insistence on the importance of “tradition,” and on totalitarianism in general”

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