Ochlagogy vs Ochlocrat - What's the difference?
ochlagogy | ochlocrat | Related terms |
(rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
* 1962 : Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome , “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene?—?II”,
An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
* 1897 : Gilbert Murray, M.A., A history of ancient Greek literature ,
* 1993 : Jorge Amado, Gregory Rabassa [tr.], The War of the Saints ,
* 2006 : Heinrich August Winkler, Alexander Sager [tr.], Germany: The Long Road West, 1789–1933 ,
Ochlagogy is a related term of ochlocrat.
As nouns the difference between ochlagogy and ochlocrat
is that ochlagogy is (rare) manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue while ochlocrat is an adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.ochlagogy
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(-)page 21(The Clarendon Press)
- One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.
ochlocrat
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(en noun)page 338(D. Appleton and Company)
- But Lysias was an unabashed ‘?ochlocrat .’ He was at this time poor, and his citizenship was shown to be illegal almost as soon as it was granted.
page 117(Bantam Books; ISBN 0553095374, 9780553095371)
- “You, Father, are an ochlocrat . No heresy in our time is more noxious than trying to implant ochlocracy in the Church. And that’s what you’re trying to do.”
page 59] ([http://www.oup.co.uk/ Oxford University Press; ISBN 0199265976, 978-0199265978)
- ‘The people are as holy as the mob is unholy. A democract is one who wants government for the people and by the people. Someone who wants mob rule is called an “ochlocrat ”.’ [from ochlos , Greek for ‘mass’, ‘mob’ (h.a.w.)] The three estates, the nobility, peasantry, and bourgeoisie, must have advisory and co-determinative political power in all issues and requirements of the country; the princes are to exercise executive authority ‘within boundaries established by the general laws of Germany’.31