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Accuracy
Accuracy Ac"cu*ra*cy (#; 277), n. [See Accurate.] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; 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.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy Ar`is*toc"ra*cy, n.; pl. Aristocracies. [Gr. ?; ? best + ? to be strong, to rule, ? strength; ? is perh. from the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. ?.] 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. --B. Jonson. 3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. --Swift. 4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.
Autocracy
Autocracy Au*toc"ra*cy, n.; pl. Autocracies. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autocratie. See Autocrat.] 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. --South. 2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. 3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. --Barlow. 4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] --Dunglison.
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy Bu*reau"cra*cy, n. [Bureau + Gr. ? to be strong, to govern, ? strength: cf. F. bureaucratie.] 1. 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. 2. Government officials, collectively.
Confederacy
Confederacy Con*fed"er*a*cy, n. (Amer. Hist.) With the, the Confederate States of America.
Confederacy
Confederacy Con*fed"er*a*cy, n.; pl. Confederacies. [From Confederate, a.] 1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. --Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. --Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. --Bancroft. 2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. --Harris. Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. --Dryden. 3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation.
Congeneracy
Congeneracy Con*gen"er*a*cy, n. Similarity of origin; affinity. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
Conspiracy
Conspiracy Con*spir"a*cy, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.] 1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or 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. 2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. Syn: Combination; plot; cabal.
Curacy
Curacy Cu"ra*cy (k?"r?-s?), n.; pl. Curacies (-s?z). [See Cure, Curate.] The office or employment of a curate.
Degeneracy
Degeneracy De*gen"er*a*cy, n. [From Degenerate, a.] 1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. --Tillotson. 2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. --Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. --S. Clarke.
Deliracy
Deliracy De*lir"a*cy, n. [See Delirate.] Delirium. [Obs.]
Doulocracy
Doulocracy Dou*loc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. ? slave + ? to rule.] A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] --Hare.
dulocracy
Doulocracy Dou*loc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. ? slave + ? to rule.] A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] --Hare.
Dulocracy
Dulocracy Du*loc"ra*cy, n. See Doulocracy.
Gerontocracy
Gerontocracy Ger`on*toc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. ?, ?, an old man + ? to rule.] Government by old men. [R.] --Gladstone.
Gunocracy
Gunocracy Gu*noc"ra*cy, n. See Gyneocracy.
Gyneocracy
Gyneocracy Gyn"e*oc`ra*cy, n. See Gynecocracy.
Gynocracy
Gynocracy Gy*noc"ra*cy, n. [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.
Hagiocracy
Hagiocracy Ha`gi*oc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. ? holy, and ? to govern.] Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Hierocracy
Hierocracy Hi`er*oc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. "iero`s sacred + ? to be strong, rule.] Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. --Jefferson.
Idiocracy
Idiocracy Id`i*oc"ra*cy, n.; pl. Idiocrasies. [Idio- + Gr. ? a mixture, fr. ? to mix: cf. F. idiocrasie.] Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.
Immoderacy
Immoderacy Im*mod"er*a*cy, n. [From Immoderate.] Immoderateness. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Inaccuracy
Inaccuracy In*ac"cu*ra*cy, n.; pl. Inaccuracies. 1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
Inconsideracy
Inconsideracy In`con*sid"er*a*cy, n. Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] --Chesterfield.
Inveteracy
Inveteracy In*vet"er*a*cy, n. [From Inveterate.] 1. Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. --A. Tucker. 2. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. --Guardian.
Irregeneracy
Irregeneracy Ir`re*gen"er*a*cy, n. Unregeneracy.
Itineracy
Itineracy I*tin"er*a*cy, n. The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
Jesuitocracy
Jesuitocracy Jes`u*it*oc"ra*cy, n. [Jesuit + -cracy, as in aristocracy.] Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. [R.] --C. Kingsley.
Kakistocracy
Kakistocracy Kak`is*toc"ra*cy, n. [Gr. ? worst + ? to rule.] Government by the worst men.
Literacy
Literacy Lit"er*a*cy, n. State of being literate.

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