| Noah Webster - English language - 1834 - 1052 pages
...to a demiurge, or to creative power. DE-MOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. fnitotfaria.] Government by the iwople ; a form of government in which the supreme power is...which the people exercise the powers of legislation. DEM'O-CKAT, it. One who adheres to a government by the people, or favom the extension of the right... | |
| Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...oligarchy, which is by some thought to be the worst of all governments. 3. A monarchy ; which is a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. Such a state is Usually called a kingdom, or an empire. This name is generally given... | |
| Andrew White Young - Political Science - 1836 - 334 pages
...oliga r.-hy. which is by come thought to be the worst of all governments. 43. (3.) A monarchy; which is a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a •ingle person. Such a state is usually called a kingdom, or an empire. This name is generally given... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 104 pages
...call of Abram — which happened in the two thousand and eightythird year of the world. * Monarchy, government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single man. CHAPTER IV. Abram called — His character — Destruction of Sodom — Joseph in Egypt... | |
| Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...emphatically, mixed governments. § 37. A democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people meet in one assembly, and enact and execute the laws. The governments of ancient Greece were democracies.... | |
| Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...something out of it. thing having three angles, of which the terminal one is much further from the base DEMOC'RACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in than the lateral ones. the hands of the people collectively, or in DEL'UGE, an inundation or overflowing... | |
| Charles Alfred Browne - Asia - 1843 - 444 pages
...vegetable. MONARCHY, from, the Greek fiovtj mone, single, and npxtj arche, a government, and is a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single individual. MONSOON— see page 26— it is of Hindoo origin. MOOR, signifies a tract of wet... | |
| Noah Webster - English language - 1844 - 1142 pages
...Pertaining to a demiurge, or to creative power. DE-MOCXRA-CY, *. [Gr. In^atfana.] Government by the people } a form of government in which the supreme power is...collectively, or in which the people exercise the powej-s of legislation. DF.M'O-CRAT, n. One who adheres to a government by the people, or favors the... | |
| Alfred Radford Symonds - India - 1845 - 430 pages
...animal nor vegetable. MONARCHY, from the Greek /uorij, single, and «PX», a gorernment, is a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single individual. MONSOON— see page 22— it is of Hindoo origin. MOOR, signifies a tract of wet... | |
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