资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Democratic \Dem`o*crat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. d['e]mocratique.]
   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.