physiocrat

American  

[fiz-ee-uh-krat] / ˈfɪz i əˌkræt /

noun

1. one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.

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physiocrat British  

/ ˌfɪzɪˈɒkrəsɪ, ˈfɪzɪəʊˌkræt /

noun

1. a follower of Quesnay's doctrines of government, believing that the inherent natural order governing society was based on land and its natural products as the only true form of wealth

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Other Word Forms

• physiocracy noun
• physiocratic adjective

Etymology

Origin of physiocrat

From the French word physiocrate, dating back to 1790–1800. See physio-, -crat

Example Sentences

So wrote the supposed agrarian to the founder of physiocracy, and this is a prima facie evidence that Jefferson was not a Physiocrat of the first water.

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The rapid industrialization of the United States had greatly alarmed the old Physiocrat.

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Furthermore, the old Physiocrat predicted that if the United States ever followed such a policy, they would lose their prestige as a democratic and peaceful nation.

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The answer of Jefferson has unfortunately disappeared and was probably destroyed by Du Pont; but another letter of the old Physiocrat permits us to reconstruct its contents.

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To a physiocrat the wealth of a community was increased not by money, but by an abundant produce from its own soil.

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