aristocratic, aristocrat ick, aristocratical

[ Fr. aristocrа tique; Sp., Port., & Ital. aristocratico; Gr. ἀριστοκρατικός ( aristokratikos ).] Pertaining or relating to a government conducted by the nobles or other persons of rank in the community, or pertaining or relating to those nobles or people of rank themselves. "Four chief powers will be found on examination to influence and divide divide political society-the the kingly, the sacerdotai, the aristocratic , and the democratic."Evans Crowe: Hist. France (ed. 1830), vol. xx., L., p. 9. "... which will then be the aristocratical branch of our legislature."-Bowring: Bentham's Fragm. on Government. Works, vol. i., p. 280. ăr-is-to-crăt-ic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. aristo cratical; -ly.] In an aristocratical manner; as the aristocracy are wont to do. "The whole Christian world, the universal Church, is by some pretended to be monarchically, or by others aristocratically, governed."-Hammond: Works, vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 97. (Richardson.)