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Democracy. [Obs.] Milton.

The power or government of demons. A demonocracy of unclean spirits. H. Taylor.

A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

See Doulocracy.

Government by old men. [R.] Gladstone.

See Gyneocracy.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

See Gynecocracy.

Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.…

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.

A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings. Hippocratic face Etym: [L. facies Hippocratica], the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the sk…

The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Idiocracy.

Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.