oligarchal en · ADJ
Etymology
From oligarch + -al.
Meanings
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(dated, not-comparable) Oligarchic, oligarchical.
The whole defence, / Our oligarchal tyrants have to boaſt, / Are poor Barbarians, ſcarce three hundred ſtrong, […]
a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Thirteenth”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 59, lines 101–103: