nonce-wd. [f. Gr. ἀριθμό-ς number + -κρατία rule: see -CRACY.] A form of government in which the power is vested in the simply numerical majority.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, Pref. (1879), 116. A ‘democracy’ of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute ‘arithmocracy.’
