Gy‐noc″ra‐cy (jĭ‐nŏk″rȧ‐sy̆), n. [See Gynecocracy.] Female government; gynecocracy.
The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir W. Scott.