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