Word of the Day:
theocracy
What It Means
Government under the control of a state religion.
Rule by a god.
Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama prior to Chinese annexation.
Did You Know?
From theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..."
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