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Thearchy

Thearchy \The"ar*chy\, n. [Gr. ? god + -archy: cf. Gr. ? the supreme deity.] Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

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thearchy

n. 1 A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy. 2 A system or ordering of deities. (qualifier: Compare ''pantheon''.)

Usage examples of "thearchy".

It was empty, however, on that chill spring morning when a small skimmer marked with the triple triangle of the Thearchy dropped to a parking terrace on the slope beneath it.

Forbidden by the Thearchy, but still current among these stupid premen.

Her starship loaded with a precious cargo of gum from the seedpods of a mutant poppy that flourished on the Terran highlands, she took it on to dominions of the Thearchy in another universe, guiding it through contact planes that no mortal pilot could sense or penetrate.

Their lessons were about all the worlds of the Thearchy except Andoranda V, the only one they could ever expect to see.

The truman town was still far off, and they would be blundering strangers there even if they reached it, their passports poorly forged, and the Thearchy always on their trail.

The Thearchy has always loyally denied it, and over the centuries every outspoken believer has been burned alive.

Looking legal enough, their passports carried visas from the Terran Thearchy granting them the status of student guests with permission for an indeterminate visit.

Ignoring the basic works he suggested on the ethics of Bel and the philosophy of Thar, on the history of the Terran Thearchy, on the social organization and the economic management of the secular state, they turned instead to difficult studies of divine metaphysics.

When the Thearchy allows us another birth, the women gather in the chapel to let Bel select the mother.

Sunlight glanced on the linked triangles of the Thearchy as it slid down into a juniper clump beside the ditcher.

They would call the information center, and soon all the might of the angry Thearchy would be descending here.

The chief prelates of the Thearchy sat along the second level, hushed and uncomfortable in their jeweled vestments as if embarrassed by his unaccustomed nearness to divinity.

Sick with his helpless rage at Quelf and Belthar, at the Inquisition and the whole Thearchy, he clutched the old iron bars as if to rip them out, punched his fist against the rough concrete.

Siouan thearchy was invoked and adored by means of forms and ceremonies, as well as through orisons.