a. [f. as prec. + -AL: see -ICAL.] = prec.
a. a. 1647. Sir R. Filmer, Observ. Aristotle’s Pol. (1652), 6. It may very properly be called a timocratical Government, where Magistrates are chosen by their wealth.
1844. Thirlwall, Greece, VIII. lxi. 85. A timocratical restriction on the exercise of the franchise.
b. 1822. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., II. 13. In … Plato’s Republic … the author traces out the origin of four different sorts of government (viz. the timocratical or Lacedæmonian [etc.]).
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 99. Beginning with the timocracy, let us go on to the timocratical man.
