The whole executive government may be considered as a great aristocratical association, of which the ealdormen were the members, and the king little more than the president.
In 50 he returned to Rome to support the interests of Caesar against the aristocraticalparty headed by Pompey, and was appointed tribune.
Merit was not considered, as a landed estate, to be altogether hereditary, and the personal nature of chivalry became a check upon the exclusiveness of aristocratical pride.
The sexton did not appear by any means to approve of the arrangement, and as I stood next the door laid his finger on my arm, as if to intimate that myself and companions must quit our aristocratical location.
How will it be possible to maintain the old aristocratical system of party-government?
We think the observation unphilosophical; and it is because the old aristocratical system of England received a heavy blow in 1832 that we believe a king of that country could make himself a ruler in fact as well as in theory.
They became masters of Thebes and all the neighboring towns, and reversed all the acts of the Spartans, and established democratic governments, and forced the aristocratical leaders into exile.
He cleared the roads of robbers, and formed an aristocratical constitution, with a king, who was only the first of his nobles.
Cicero was invited to the consulship[169] no less by the aristocratical party than by the many who for the interest of the state gave him their aid, and for the following reason.
They were often opposed to the senate, but it was an opposition of pure interest, and their wealth made them rather the partisans of the aristocratical than of the popular body.
Accordingly the depression of the aristocratical body had for a necessary consequence the elevation of an individual to power, as in the case of Caesar the dictator.
Still the general character of a popular and of anaristocratical party is correctly sketched by Machiavelli.
The aristocratical class had a clearer object than the leaders of the popular party: they wished to maintain the power of their order and that of the senate, which was the administering body.
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.
Gradually, as wealth increased, the equites became an influential order, not less aristocratical than the patricians.
The aristocratical element had the ascendency when Rome was most prosperous and most respected.
We began peacefully and legislatively to transform the monarchico-aristocratical constitution of Hungary into a monarchico-democratical constitution.
There may perhaps be some few honest but weak men, who, weary of a homeless life, would fain return home, even under the condition of monarchical-aristocratical compromise which some skilful diplomatists make glitter into their eyes.
A half dozenaristocratical gentlemen, agonizing under the loss of pre-eminence, have sometimes ventured their sarcasms on our political metamorphosis.
These were, as yet, the aristocratical days of Virginia.
While military force was arrayed to overawe the republican Puritans of the east, it was thought to dazzle the aristocratical descendants of the cavaliers by the reflex of regal splendor.
A public county meeting of the freeholders of Hampshire was also held, at Winchester, called by the High Sheriff, in consequence of a requisition signed by the aristocratical Whigs of that county, to address the King, upon the same subject.
His polished manners and lively conversation were the delight of aristocratical societies; and none who met him in such societies would have thought it possible that he could bear the chief part in any atrocious crime.
For the ignominious death of a single member of a smallaristocratical body necessarily leaves a stain on the reputation of his fellows.
Among those who experienced this unsoldierly treatment was Mrs. Schuyler, the aunt of the general; a lady of aristocratical station, revered throughout her neighborhood.
Hereditary succession, if it existed, would indicate a remarkable development of thearistocratical element in ancient society, in derogation of the democratical constitution of the gentes.
Such were the first effects that Europe saw of popular violence, after having groaned, during so many ages, under monarchical and aristocratical tyranny.
Such were the principles and practices of those ancient knights and barons, during the prevalence of the aristocratical government, and the reign of chivalry.
Paoli and thearistocratical party then offered the cession of the island to the King of Great Britain, which was accepted.
Encouraged by this division, as well as by the venality of the aristocratical senate, Gustavus III.
Plan of a progressive tax, operating to extirpate the unjust and unnatural law of primogeniture, and the vicious influence of the aristocratical system.
Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him.
It will reach the point of prohibition by a regular operation, and thereby supersede the aristocratical law of primogeniture.
Every chartered town is anaristocratical monopoly in itself, and the qualification of electors proceeds out of those chartered monopolies.
It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children five are exposed.
They sprung not from the filth of rotten boroughs, nor are they the vassal representatives of aristocratical ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aristocratical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
