nonce-wd. [f. Gr. ἄνεμος wind + -(O)CRACY, Gr. κρατεία rule; cf. theocracy.] A government by the wind.
1808. Syd. Smith, Plymley’s Lett., Wks. 1859, II. 165/1. The miserable and precarious state of an anemocracy, of a people who put their trust in hurricanes, and are governed by wind.
