Definition of Republec
Republic, the name given to a State in which the sovereign power is
vested in one or more elected by the community, and held answerable to it
though in point of fact, both in Rome and the Republic of Venice the
community was not free to elect any one outside of a privileged order.
- Wikipedia
Re*pub"lic (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F.
république, L. respublica commonwealth;
res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica,
public. See Real, a., and Public.]
1. Common weal. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
2. A state in which the sovereign power
resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by
representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf.
Democracy, 2.
&fist; In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power
was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few,
constituting a government now distinctively called an
aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between
an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No
existing republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to
govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery.
Republic of letters, The collective body of
literary or learned men.
Re*pub"lic (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F.
république, L. respublica commonwealth;
res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica,
public. See Real, a., and Public.]
1. Common weal. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
2. A state in which the sovereign power
resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by
representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf.
Democracy, 2.
&fist; In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power
was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few,
constituting a government now distinctively called an
aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between
an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No
existing republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to
govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery.
Republic of letters, The collective body of
literary or learned men.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing
governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to
enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of
public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from
ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to.
There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between
the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
The U.S.A. is a republic; Great Britain is technically a monarchy.
- One of the kinds of parts constituting Russia. See oblast.
The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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