telocratic

telocratic (comparative more telocratic, superlative most telocratic)

1. Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
   • 1994, Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, page 28:

     Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions.

   • 2009, Raymond Plant, The Neo-liberal State, page 13:

     The goals which telocratic governments seek to secure for people whether the welfare goals of health, education, and social security and goals of a darker hue such as racial, ethnic, national, cultural, or religious purity equally have their roots deep in European history.

   • 2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe:

     The enterprise association or telocratic order, as the names show, is based on a unifying purpose, on a common enterprise, which initiates the voluntary gathering of its members in order to attempt to reach or pursue it.

2. Relating to the final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
   • 2012, B. Huntley, T. Webb III, Vegetation history, page 173:

     Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe.

telocratic

1. The final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
   • 1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:

     Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

   • 1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64:

     Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic.

• cryocratic
• protocratic
• mesocratic
• oligocratic