a. [Cf. F. bureaucratique, and prec.] Of or pertaining to bureaucracy.
So Bureaucratically adv., in a bureaucratic manner; Bureaucratism, a bureaucratic system; Bureaucratist, a supporter or advocate of bureaucrats and bureaucracy.
1824. Morn. Chron., 11 March, 2/3. For which all this fearful and long apparatus of ways and bureaucratic formalities has been employed.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XL. 587. They are given usually through a bureaucratic influence.
1877. A. B. Edwards, Up Nile, xv. 401. We find an elaborate bureaucratic system in full operation.
1863. Sat. Rev., XV. 265/1. A people … bureaucratically governed, yet jealous of office.
1880. Athenæum, 11 Sept., 336/2. Thanks to Russian bureaucratism.
1883. Sir Julian Goldsmid, in 19th Cent., Dec., 740. The intelligent but stern central bureaucratism of Germany.
1836. Foreign Q. Rev., XVII. 255. The Prince has not taken any active share in the public affairs of his country, either as a ‘bureaucratist’ at home, or as a diplomatist abroad.
1854. Blackw. Mag., LXXVI. 134/2. By the ignorant and officious agency of German bureaucratists, Anglo-French constitutionalists, and Muscovite diplomatists.
