ocracy

English

Noun

ocracy (plural ocracies)

  1. (rare) Any of various forms of government or rule as designated by words ending in -ocracy.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:
      He thundered away about lawsuits and judgments in the High Court of Justice, about disputes with the Court of Chancery, [...] about the insufficiency of the currency, about official aristocracy and all other "ocracies" in the world, from King Nebuchadnezzar down to Peter Solvold's democracy.
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