theocracy – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
theocracy
n.
government by priests or religious officials believed to be divinely guided
Theocracy
Theocracy, according to dictionary, is the "government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided." The
Oxford English Dictionary has this definition:
- A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents; hence (loosely) a system of government by a sacerdotal order, claiming a divine commission; also, a state so governed.
theocracy
Noun
1. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
(hypernym) political system, form of government
(hyponym) church-state
2. the belief in government by divine guidance
(hypernym) political orientation, ideology, political theory
Theocracy
(n.)
The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
(n.)
Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Theocracy
A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.
Religion, which in former times, frequently associated itself with despotism, to reign, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God, theocracy.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
