thearchy
Noun
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Noun
thearchy
- A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
- 1643, Subject of Supremacie, 42:
- There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.
- 1643, Maximes Unfolded, 8:
- Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.
- 1863, G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, I 254:
- [The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.
- 1643, Subject of Supremacie, 42:
- A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
- 1852, P.J. Bailey, Festus, 11:
- From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.
- 1876, W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism, 245:
- Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.
- 1899 Dec. 1, ''Literary Guide, 178 1:
- When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy […] was already tottering to its fall.
- 1852, P.J. Bailey, Festus, 11:
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