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ng origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.

precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

n the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

re oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

Similarity of origin; affinity. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point. Chaucer. They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. 2 Kings xiv. 19. I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. Shak.

The office or employment of a curate.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

Delirium. [Obs.]

Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

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.…