The Death of Fissiparous and Other Words: A Dictionary of Words & Phrases on the Verge of Extinction

technocracy

tek-NAW-kruh-see

noun

a government by technical experts and scientists

1935Sinclair Lewis It Can'T Happen Here...the 'Share the Wealth' and 'Every Man a King' proposals of the late Hon. Huey Long to assure every family $5000 a year, the Townsend plan, the Utopian plan, Technocracy, and all competent schemes of unemployment insurance…1970Alvin TofflerFuture ShockJust as, in the main, their alternatives to industrialism call for a return to pre-industrial institutions, their alternative to technocracy is not post- but pre-technocracy.1982Steven M. KrauzerRenegade Agent...the world was becoming a technocracy, a society managed by the technical experts.

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Dionysus

DAI-uhn-ai-suhs

noun

related to the ancient Greek god (or the god's cult of worshipers) of wine, revelry, fertility, and the theatre; known in Roman times as Bacchus

1906Cassius DioDio's Rome...in Pergamum a kind of noise of drums and cymbals rose from the temple of Dionysus and spread throughout the city…1915W. Somerset MaughamOf Human BondageHe showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how beyond they could see the blue Aegean.1970Alvin TofflerFuture ShockCults form around the search for Dionysian experience…

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