thearchy
thearchy noun: a government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
Noun
thearchy (countable and uncountable, plural thearchies)
- A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
- There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.1643, Subject of Supremacie, section 42
- Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.1643, Maximes Unfolded, section 8
- A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
- From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.1839, [Philip James Bailey], chapter XI, in Festus: A Poem, London: William Pickering, →OCLC
- Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.1876, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “On the Egyptian and Foreign Knowledge of Homer”, in Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry into the Time and Place of Homer, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, part II...
thearchy meaning in Tamil
thearchy in Tamil
- கடவுளாட்சி, புரோகிதராட்சி, தெய்வீக ஆட்சியர்
Forms of thearchy
| plural | thearchies |
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Origin of thearchy
From Ancient Greek θεαρχία (thearkhía), from θεός (theós, “god”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”). By surface analysis, the- + -archy.
Words formed from thearchy
Questions about thearchy
- What does thearchy mean?
- Thearchy means a government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
- What is thearchy in Tamil?
- Thearchy in Tamil is கடவுளாட்சி, புரோகிதராட்சி, தெய்வீக ஆட்சியர். See Thearchy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is thearchy?
- Thearchy is a noun.
- What is the plural of thearchy?
- The plural of thearchy is thearchies.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thearchy (page history and authors); thearchy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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