diakriticracy
NOUN
1. diakriticracy [dee-uh-kri-tic-ruh-see]: government by discretion; a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the individual and exercised through the discretion of anonymous agents approved in regular contests of martial prowess.
· Origin of diakriticracy
1797; < Greek: equivalent to diakriti(kós) discreet + -kratia -cracy government.