Dem`o*crat"ic (?), a. [Gr. : cf. F. d'emocratique.]
1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
2. Relating to a political party so called.
3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.
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