critocracy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A system of rule by judges.
    — In the United States it may be called a Plutarchy or pure rule of money with a Critocracy or government by Judges because through the complicated machinery of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent the people's rule ...
  2. A system of rule by critics.
    — Literature and the literary critocracy have an advantage over the visual arts, they can be read and enjoyed at leisure in direct and frequent contact with the author; but for paintings, sculpture and architecture we have to get up and go […]

词形变化

critocracies plural kritocracy alternative kritarchy alternative

词源

Neologism, formed from Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”) + -ocracy. Alternatively, from crit[ic] + -ocracy.
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