protocratic meaning: definition, quotations

protocratic

adj

Pertaining to an initial or original form of social control.

In the drives of war and revolution protocratic rule broadens into sovereignty: "the domiant human power, individual or pluralistic, in a politically organized and politically independent population."1922, Franklin Henry Giddings, Studies in the Theory of Human Society, page 276:
People usually are not ignorant from choice; but often they are uninformed if clarifying facts are inaccessible or deliberately withheld from them by protocratic minorities.1940, Douglas Gilbert Haring, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Order and Possibility in Social Life, page 422:

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All day and all night God's protocratic forces, the angelic enforcers of heaven, are ministering on the saints' behalf, Church.2021, Apostle Magnolia M. Edwards, Binding the Strongman:

protocratic

noun

Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences The first stage of interglacial forest development (Pre-Temperate), characterized by light-demanding species and rapid changes in vegetation.

Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:
These shade-tolerant and relatively long-lived trees soon compete out the protocratic communities.1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 9:

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An example of the vegetation of this initial protocratic phase of the Holocene would be the subarctic birch–aspen woodland which existed adjacent to the retreating southern margin of the Scandinavian ice sheet.2014, Neil Roberts, The Holocene: An Environmental History, page 141:
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:

Related terms: cryocratic, mesocratic, oligocratic, telocratic