A Jeffersonian word applied to the Federalists; a promoter of autocracy.
1792. The doctrines of the monocrats.—Tho. Jefferson, ‘Writings,’ (1859), iii. 494. (N.E.D.)
1793. He is satisfied it is altogether a slander of the monocrats.—The same, ‘The Anas,’ July 18: id., ix. 60.
