Gy-nōc'ra-cy, n.

n. [See GYNECOCRACY.] Female government; gynecocracy; gyneocracy.

The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynecracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fish-woman. W. Scott.