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A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

Same as Cymene.

The sway of pedants. [R.] J. S. Mill.

The act or crime of a pirate.

Government by planters; planters, collectively. [R.]

A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.

Government by many rulers; polyarchy.

The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.

The state of being regenerated. Hammond.

e or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.

See Slavocracy.

The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery. [U. S.]

Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] C. Kingsley.

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.