English

Noun

pedantocracy ‎(plural pedantocracies)

1. Government by pedants.
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148:

     ... if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.

See also

• Appendix:Forms of government