the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy; mob rule.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The rule or ascendancy of the multitude or common people; mobocracy; mob-rule.
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n. a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses
Word Usage
"a democracy that departed from the civil and political equality which was its supposed basis, and gave ascendancy to a faction, was sometimes designated by the term ochlocracy, or the dominion of the rabble."