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Webster 1913 Edition


Statocracy

Sta-toc′ra-cy

(stȧ-tŏk′rȧ-sy̆)
,
Noun.
[
State
+
-cracy
, as in
democracy
.]
Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.
[R.]
O. A. Brownson.