Citations:hoplarchy


 * 1834–43: Robert Southey [aut.] and John Wood Warter [ed.], The Doctor, &c., volume VII, chapter CCXLI, page 498 (14th September 1847 posthumous publication)
 * There was an order of hereditary nobles in the Doctor’s Columbia; men were raised to that rank as a just reward for any signal service which they had rendered to the state; but on the other hand an individual might be degraded for any such course of conduct as evinced depravity in himself, or was considered as bringing disgrace upon his order. The chiefs of the Hierarchy, the Iatrarchy, the Nomarchy, and the Hoplarchy (under which title both sciences, naval and military, were comprised) were like our Bishops, Peers of the realm by virtue of their station, and for life only.