[f. Gr. λόγο-ς word + -CRACY.] A community or system of government in which words are the ruling powers.
1804–6. Syd. Smith, Mor. Philos. (1850), 104. Instruments which overturn the horrible tyranny of adjectives and substantives, and free the mind from the chains of that logocracy in which it is so frequently enslaved.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 108. Their government is a pure unadulterated logocracy, or government of words.
