Gerontocracy

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:52:51

Ger`on*toc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. , , an old man + to rule.]

Government by old men.

[R.]

Gladstone.

 

© Webster 1913.

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