Adjective : aristocratic bearing; aristocratic snobbishness. From Dictionary.com.
Into this "aristocratical" set I was now regularly introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference
Aristophanes 'point of view, as a member of the aristocratical party and. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
They served to render the representation from such States aristocratical. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
We stood in antagonism to the monarchical and aristocratical polities of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
It was a terribly different society -- much more aristocratical, caste conscious. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation] Reference
Unluckily the path to fortune lay through the aristocratical mazes of Northumberland. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
It is monarchical and aristocratical government only requires ignorance for its support. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Lott: Supreme Court Decision Is ‘Ridiculous and Outrageous,’ Has Our Enemies ‘Laughing At Us’] Reference
And the oligarch is third from the royal; since we count as one royal and aristocratical?. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
They may be aristocrats, but they have not the shadow of a claim to aristocratical origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Murkowski, he said, was "part of the ruling class, the aristocratical leadership or lack thereof.". From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Murkowski battles for GOP hearts as Palin grows louder in Alaskan expanse] Reference
It is monarchical and aristocratical government only requires ignorance for its support. †oops. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Lott: Supreme Court Decision Is ‘Ridiculous and Outrageous,’ Has Our Enemies ‘Laughing At Us’] Reference
There is nothing so pertinacious, so unrelenting, and so difficult to change, as an aristocratical body. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
He was aristocratical too in his notions; keeping aloof, as I found, from the ordinary run of pensioners. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Areopagus was an oligarchical element, the elected magistracy, aristocratical, and the courts of law, democratical. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
Swallow Barn is an aristocratical old edifice, which sits, like a brooding hen, on the southern bank of the James River. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Paoli and the aristocratical party then offered the cession of the island to the King of Great Britain, which was accepted. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Antiphon was perfectly aristocratical; whom, after he had been acquitted in the assembly, he took and brought before the court of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
For this reason, wealth in all commercial states is found to accumulate, and all such have hitherto in time become aristocratical. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Or Freedom. Patrick Henry Knew The Heart Of George Bush!] Reference
We have seen nearly thirty highnesses of the same name, having nothing for their fortunes but old armories and aristocratical hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
On the bridge we met many Austrian officers in rich uniforms, most of them young, and, I thought, very aristocratical in their bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Cleon's partizans, no less than his own aristocratical friends, would sympathize with his satire when directed against the philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
Apropos of dogs, I found dear old Dake, the noble Newfoundland which H. gave us, look as intensely black and as grandly aristocratical as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
It was amazing how the most plebeian name of Simon Deg had slid, under the hands of the heralds, into the really aristocratical one of Sir Simon. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Yet, in making our Constitution, not only was such a body instituted, but it was rendered as anti-democratic and as aristocratical as it could possibly be made. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
The shouts and congratulations of the well-affected and aristocratical part of the audience attended his success, but still a subsequent trial of skill remained. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
I, seeing you sitting so much at your ease in the car, almost as if you were going to bow to the populace, think what a picture of old luxurious aristocratical England!. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
Many even of those who desire to form aristocratical governments make a mistake, not only in giving too much power to the rich, but in attempting to overreach the people. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
On the banishment of Themistocles Aristides became the undisputed leader of the aristocratical party at Athens, and on his death, four years subsequently, Cimon succeeded him. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Russia, being more an agricultural, intellectual-aristocratical country, will fell least of all the after effects of the past horrors, therefore has the greatest potentialities. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
The aristocratical party, the richest and most influential men in England, appeared less agitated than the others, for the question was to be discussed without their interference. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Nor does it detract from their aristocratical spirit that they were ever fond of money, or from their chivalrous spirit that they were faithless when they supposed treachery would best promote their interests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
The heroic period of Roman history begins really with the expulsion of the kings; also the growth of aristocratical power. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Caesar, the greatest name in ancient history, himself a patrician, by courting the people triumphed over the aristocratical oligarchy and introduced a new regime. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
And when the aristocratical ascendency was most marked, the aristocratical body had too much virtue and ability to be enslaved by ambitious and able men of their own number. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
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