timocracy

/tahy-mok-ruh-see/US // taɪˈmɒk rə si //UK // (taɪˈmɒkrəsɪ) //

计时制,计时法,计时器,计时法则

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural ti·moc·ra·cies.
- : a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
- : a form of government in which a certain amount of property is requisite as a qualification for office.

Out of this timocracy, or timarchy, the city will next pass into an oligarchy, or government of wealth.
Timocracy, therefore, almost invariably paved the way to democracy.
Yet the question might be asked, under what category we would place the timocracy, or government of the rich.
First below that comes timocracy, or the government of those who are ambitious for power and place.
Between the Eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.