Meaning of democratic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of democrat (“a supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France)”).
   dated, in-plural
2. Pertaining to democracy; constructed upon or in line with the principle of government chosen by the people
3. Of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party
4. Exhibiting social equality; egalitarian
5. Alternative letter-case form of democratic (“pertaining to democracy”)
6. Alternative letter-case form of Democratic (“of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party”)
7. Synonym of democrat (“a supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France)”)

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Examples

“This kingly government (as some call it) is a thing that our democraticks cannot brook: we are an undone people if we do not down with that.”

“[…] [Thomas] Fairfax was made general of all the forces both in England and Ireland; and Rainsbrough [i.e., Thomas Rainsborough], a leveller, and a violent head of the democraticks, high-admiral.”

“Several circumſtances have concurred to confirm the belief that this wretched lunatick was the identical Marquis de Brunoy, who had been buried in the gloom of a priſon for nine years, whilſt the world thought him dead. The mad democraticks began to ſpread reports that the Count de Provence was privy to this tranſaction; and that it was this Prince who had obtained the Lettre de Cachet, by virtue of which this wretched man had been ſo long deprived of the light of heaven.”

“For that equality among the multitude which democratics explore, is not only just among those of a similar rank but is advantageous.”

“He [Lysander] now destroyed the democratics and popular constitutions in all the Greek cities which had been subject to Athens, placing a Lacedæmonian in each as harmost or governor, with a council of ten archons under him, composed of men selected from the political clubs which he had established.”

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