Totalitarian democracy, or anarcho-monarchism, is a term popularized by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government. The phrase had previously been used by Bertrand de Jouvenel and E.H. Carr, and subsequently by F. William Engdahl and Sheldon S. Wolin.
: a transparent or translucent mineral of different colors that consists of the fluoride of calcium and is used especially as a steelmaking flux and in the making of opalescent and opaque glasses. See fluorite defined for kids.
[Middle English diffinite, defined, from Latin dÄfÄ«nÄ«tus, past participle of dÄfÄ«nÄ«re, to define; see define.] defâ²iÂ·niteÂ·ly adv. defâ²iÂ·niteÂ·ness n. Usage Note: Definite and definitive both apply to what is precisely defined or explicitly set forth.