a. [ad. med.L. tīmocratic-us, a. Gr. τῑμοκρατικ-ός, f. τῑμοκρατία: see prec. and -IC. So F. timocratique.] Of, belonging to, or characterized by a timocracy.
a. In the Aristotelian sense: see prec. 1.
1791. Strictures on Burke Revolution in France, 11, note. This part then of our government usually termed democratic, for these reasons appears to me to be timocratic.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xxxi. IV. 168. The timocratic classification of Solon … continued to subsist.
1869. A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, II. II. iv. 89. These were the timocratic constitutions, which arrange the citizens in divisions, and determine the measure of their rights according to the standard of property.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. (ed. 2), 32. The Comitia Centuriata was a timocratic assembly, or one in which the ascendency belonged to wealth.
b. In the Platonic sense: see prec. 2.
1852. Davies & Vaughan, trans. Plato’s Rep. (1858), 312. Such we find to be the character of the timocratic young man, who resembles the timocratic state.
1905. Contemp. Rev., April, 556. The timocratic man who seeks honour may easily degenerate to the mere money lover.
