Oligarch

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Oligarch \Ol`i*garch\, n.
     A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an
     oligarchical government.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  oligarch
       n : one of the rulers in an oligarchy

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OLIGARCHY. This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of 
  a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the 
  people. Among the Romans the government degenerated several times into an 
  oligarchy; for example, under the decemvirs, when they became the only 
  magistrates in the commonwealth.