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aristarchies

aristarchies is the plural of aristarchy.

Meaning of aristarchy

Noun

aristarchy (countable and uncountable, plural aristarchies)

  1. Government by the best people.
    • All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above all things, and aristarchy, live forever. But woe to tyrants, mobs, aristocracy, anarchy, and toryism […]1838, B. H. Roberts, quoting Joseph Smith, A comprehensive history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, volume 2, published 1930, page 428
  2. A body of such rulers.
    • [A Presbyterian session] is […] a court of monarchs, or aristarchs, who hold their office for life; a limited monarchy […] or, more strictly, an aristarchy of rulers appointed for life, and ruling on the principle of elective aristarchy.1854, Leicester Ambrose Sawyer, Organic Christianity, Part IV, Division V, Chapter III, page 248

Questions about aristarchies

What is aristarchies the plural of?
Aristarchies is the plural of aristarchy.

Words near aristarchies in the dictionary

  1. aristameres
  2. aristarainite
  3. Aristarch
  4. Aristarchian
  5. aristarchic
  6. aristarchies
  7. Aristarchs
  8. Aristarchus
  9. aristarchy
  10. aristas
  11. Aristasian

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