jocular. [f. LAND sb.: see -CRACY.] The class of people that owes its controlling position in the country to its possession of landed property. So Landocrat, a member of this class.
1848. Simmonds’s Colon. Mag., Aug., 343. The Landocracy—in which term we comprehend all landowners great and small.
a. 1865. Cobden, in Daily News (1869), 16 Jan., 2/2. The aristocracy and landocracy and moneyocracy who govern our elections.
1882. T. Mozley, Remin., II. xcviii. 173. [I felt] a deep grievance with the British landocracy.
1893. Nat. Observer, 23 Sept., 484/1. The wail of the landocrat is heard in the land.
