aristocratical

It must be an aristocracy too of the most dangerous kind, for it will consist of strangers and of those few of our youth, whose parents are able to bear the expense of education, in what the Citizen no doubt calls aristocratical countries.

Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Wilmington Gazette, 1805 or After 1805

Into this "aristocratical" set I was now regularly introduced.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper 1820

-- E.] [Footnote 314: It will be seen in other voyages, that the Malays, who are widely diffused over the Indian archipelago, often live under a kind of aristocratical republican government; even where they are subjected to kings, partaking much of the feudal semblance.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

In the same vein, “Cassandra” warned of “an aristocratical junto” that was “straining every nerve to frustrate our virtuous endeavors and to make the common and middle class of people their beasts of burden.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

“This is holding out an aristocratical idea,” Smilie declared.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Murkowski, he said, was "part of the ruling class, the aristocratical leadership or lack thereof."

Lisa Murkowski battles for GOP hearts as Palin grows louder in Alaskan expanse 2010

In the same vein, “Cassandra” warned of “an aristocratical junto” that was “straining every nerve to frustrate our virtuous endeavors and to make the common and middle class of people their beasts of burden.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

In the angry, dark days of the Revolution, and in the epochal political struggles that followed, the foes of Robert Morris denounced him as the leader of the “aristocratical” party, seeking to restore the social order that the American patriots had done so much to overturn.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

In the angry, dark days of the Revolution, and in the epochal political struggles that followed, the foes of Robert Morris denounced him as the leader of the “aristocratical” party, seeking to restore the social order that the American patriots had done so much to overturn.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Writing in the Providence Gazette, “A Freeholder” advised that passage of the impost would shred the protections of local rights embodied in the Articles of Confederation, “at once destroying all the liberties of the several states, reducing them to so many provinces of Congress, and tending to the establishment of an aristocratical or monarchial government.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010