Definition of "aristocratic" []

• Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men. (adjective)
• Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy. (adjective)

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• "In using the term aristocratic literature I have in mind an intellectual rather than a social category."
• "Russian Noblesse has little or nothing of what we call aristocratic feeling -- little or nothing of that haughty, domineering, exclusive spirit which we are accustomed to associate with the word aristocracy."
• "Mr. Millbank ever to enter what he called aristocratic society."