stratocracy
Americannoun
plural
stratocraciesnoun
Other Word Forms
- stratocrat noun
- stratocratic adjective
Etymology
Origin of stratocracy
1645–55; < Greek strató ( s ) army + -cracy
Example Sentences
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It is in the perfection of the stratocracy that we must look for the key to the excesses of the autocrat.
From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas
It was purely a government by the sword, or permanent stratocracy having a movable head.
From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas
But to effect such end, the Turks require the old stratocracy, which, bloody as it was, worked with far less misery than the charter and the new code.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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