democratic

adj

1. Pertaining to democracy; constructed upon or in line with the principle of government chosen by the people.

   “The United States is a democratic country, as the citizens are allowed to choose leaders to represent their interests.”

   “[W]hich government in its due conſtitution no Chriſtian or reformed Church, (not wholly under a democratick or popular ſpirit) yea no one eminent reformed Divine but did highly approve and deſire the happineſs to enjoy, as hath been made evident by their writings.”

   “Others avouch plainly the Democratick Principles, That Government riſes from the People's Conſent, and is radically founded in them; […]”

   “There, fann’d by me, lewd Faction’s quick’ning flame / Inſpires my duteous Children to defame / Thoſe Laws of Freedom which ſo long have ſtood, / Fix’d in the cement of Britannia’s blood. / There, my ſubverting Delegates diſplay / The madding pride of Democratic ſway.”

2. Exhibiting social equality; egalitarian.

   “"Oh, I hold with the framers of the Constitution, that all men are created free and equal; likewise, all boys and girls," said democratic Kitty; […]”

   “Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […] Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.”

   “Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.”

3. (US, alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Democratic (“of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party”).

   “Mount Vernon is run by a strong democratic party organization.”

4. (US, not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party of the United States.

   “The most recent Democratic president of the United States is Joe Biden.”

   “The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.”

5. (alt-of, not-comparable, rare)Alternative letter-case form of democratic (“pertaining to democracy”).

noun

1. (dated, in-plural)Synonym of democrat (“a supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France)”).

   “This kingly government (as some call it) is a thing that our democraticks cannot brook: we are an undone people if we do not down with that.”

   “[…] [Thomas] Fairfax was made general of all the forces both in England and Ireland; and Rainsbrough [i.e., Thomas Rainsborough], a leveller, and a violent head of the democraticks, high-admiral.”

   “Several circumſtances have concurred to confirm the belief that this wretched lunatick was the identical Marquis de Brunoy, who had been buried in the gloom of a priſon for nine years, whilſt the world thought him dead. The mad democraticks began to ſpread reports that the Count de Provence was privy to this tranſaction; and that it was this Prince who had obtained the Lettre de Cachet, by virtue of which this wretched man had been ſo long deprived of the light of heaven.”

   “For that equality among the multitude which democratics explore, is not only just among those of a similar rank but is advantageous.”

   “He [Lysander] now destroyed the democratics and popular constitutions in all the Greek cities which had been subject to Athens, placing a Lacedæmonian in each as harmost or governor, with a council of ten archons under him, composed of men selected from the political clubs which he had established.”