Theocracy

n.	1.	Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
	2.	The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

Noun	1.	theocracy - a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
	2.	theocracy - the belief in government by divine guidance

THEOCRACY. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.
     2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms, pour regner. par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les moeurs, 189. 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.

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