Adjacent Words

physiocrat definitions

	Tweet

Merriam Webster's

noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: French physiocrate, from physi- physi- + -crate -crat Date: 1798 a member of a school of political economists founded in 18th century France and characterized chiefly by a belief that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws and that land is the source of all wealth • physiocratic adjective, often capitalized

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Physiocrat Phys"i*o*crat, n. [Gr. fy`sis nature + ? to rule.] One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order. --F. A. Walker. -- Phys`i*o*crat"ic, a.