Ochlagogy

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈɒkləɡɒɡi/

Origin

Ochl- ("mob-") (from Ancient Greek ὄχλος (okhlos, "mob")) + -agogy ("-leading, -leadership"), on the pattern of demagogy.

Full definition of ochlagogy

Noun

1. (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
• 1962: Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome, “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene — II”, page 21 (The Clarendon Press)One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.

Related terms

• demagogy
• ochlagogue
• ochlocracy
• pedagogy