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democratic | undemocratize |

As an adjective democratic

is pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.

As a verb undemocratize is

to make not democratic, or less democratic.

democratic

English

Alternative forms

* democratick (archaic'': antedates spelling changes recommended and popularized by ''et al. )

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
  • :
  • (lb) Relating to a political party so called; usually, Democratic.
  • :
  • Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian (see online Oxford).
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

    • Derived terms

    * nondemocratic * quasidemocratic * semidemocratic * German Democratic Republic

    References

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    undemocratize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *undemocratise (Commonwealth)

    Verb

    (undemocratiz)
  • To make not democratic, or less democratic
  • *{{quote-book, 1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page=73, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=bcBHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA73
    • , passage=But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master.}}
  • *{{quote-book, 1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page=149, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UMqYmaLZDJoC&pg=PA149
    • , passage=because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 2004, date=September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, Phi Delta Kappan citation
    • , passage=CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster.}}

    Derived terms

    *undemocratization

    Related terms

    *democratize