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Definition of Aristocratical
1. Adjective. Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy. "Patrician tastes"
Similar to: Noble
Derivative terms: Aristocracy, Aristocracy, Aristocrat, Gentility, Patrician, Patrician
Definition of Aristocratical
1. Adjective. Aristocratic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aristocratical
Literary usage of Aristocratical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. James Mill: A Biography by Alexander Bain (1882)
"This being the period when the aristocratical tide was running high, when the
war was just renewed with France, when fear of invasion and the courage of ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"But for the correspondent and opposite reason, a consequence equally natural is,
that of the members of the aristocratical section, as such, the judgment ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"or evil, the most aristocratical body in the world; and its power is all the
greater that it is not derived from aristocratical privilege, but from the free ..."
4. The History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1853)
"It proposed to check one tyranny by another ; instead of so limiting the prerogatives
of every magistrate and order in the state, whether aristocratical or ..."
5. Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at by William Ellery Channing (1839)
"THE subject of this morning's lecture is, as you know by the notice already given,
Aristocratical and Political Morality; that is to say, those aberrations ..."
6. A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1836)
"His institutions were aristocratical, because none were then known of any other
kind. The effect of the union would even be, in the first instance, ..."
7. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"... aristocratical party at Athens. § 2. Revolt of Naxos. § S. Battle of Eurymedon.
§ 4. The Athenians blockade Thasos, and attempt to found colonies in ..."
8. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1858)
"It is unnecessary to suppose that the two parties here spoken of were aristocratical
and democrática!, since the former would not have helped the Athenians. ..."
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