a. [a. F. aristocratique, ad. Gr. ἀριστοκρατικ-ός: see ARISTOCRACY and -IC.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; attached to or favoring aristocracy.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., X. lvii. (1612), 250. Aristocratick gouernment nor Democratick pleas’d.

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1791.  Burke, Let. Nat. Assemb., Wks. VI. 37. To destroy these aristocratick prejudices.

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1868.  G. Duff, Polit. Surv., 35. The so-called aristocratic party, the landlords.

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  2.  Befitting an aristocrat; grand, stylish.

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1845.  Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 89. The principal tradesmen … deemed it more ‘aristocratic’; using a favourite and hackneyed epithet, which only expressed their own servility.

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1876.  Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., II. 65. Rooms so much … more aristocratic than those in which she had lived.

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