telocratic
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]telocratic (comparative more telocratic, superlative most telocratic)
- Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
- 1994, Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, page 28:
- Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions.
- 2009, Raymond Plant, The Neo-liberal State, page 13:
- The goals which telocratic governments seek to secure for people whether the welfare goals of health, education, and social security and goals of a darker hue such as racial, ethnic, national, cultural, or religious purity equally have their roots deep in European history.
- 2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe:
- The enterprise association or telocratic order, as the names show, is based on a unifying purpose, on a common enterprise, which initiates the voluntary gathering of its members in order to attempt to reach or pursue it.
- Relating to the final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
- 2012, B. Huntley, T. Webb III, Vegetation history, page 173:
- Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe.
Proper noun
[edit]telocratic
- The final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
- 1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:
- Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.
- 1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64:
- Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic.