A political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

Usage examples of theocracy.

The ill-fated Theocracy invasion had taught the predators of Boronia that human beings were easy prey.

He would almost have thought the Light was some sort of secularist plot against the churchstates all over the world, except that it seemed to have caused as much trouble in the secular world as it had in the theocracies.

Zastria is a republic, Stive a theocracy, Xornos an oligarchy, and Ganth is ruled by a military dictator.

In judging the Genevan theocracy it is important to remember that everywhere, in the sixteenth century, punishments were heavier than they are now, and the regulation of private life minuter.

The frank theocracy of the New England colonies had scarcely succumbed to the libertarianism of a godless Crown before there came the Great Awakening of 1734, with its orgies of homiletics and its restoration of talmudism to the first place among polite sciences.

FIS to impose a xenophobic anti-Western theocracy on Algeria would have produced a major backlash.

The governing body of the Kingdom of Yahweh and His Saints and Their Apostles was an ecumenical theocracy.

Even the new religions which were born from time to time--always at epochs when the mutual-aid principle was falling into decay in the theocracies and despotic States of the East, or at the decline of the Roman Empire--even the new religions have only reaffirmed that same principle.

It would establish a complete theocracy, or, rather, clerocracy, of all possible governments the government the most odious to mankind, and the most hostile to social progress.

India in 1959 by an altogether more thorough policy of secularisation in which both the monasteries and the lay nobility, hitherto the twin supports of the theocracy, lost all their former jurisdiction.

At a time when the last vestiges of barbarian freedom seemed to disappear, and Europe, fallen under the dominion of thousands of petty rulers, was marching towards the constitution of such theocracies and despotic States as had followed the barbarian stage during the previous starts of civilization, or of barbarian monarchies, such as we see now in Africa, life in Europe took another direction.

Both Masada and Grayson are ruled by theocracies, one almost as crazy as the other.

If you put aside the arguable features of Mormon theocracy—th e fact of theocracy, women's rights, resurgent polygamy, the identification of Amerinds as lost tribes of Israel,—you could focus on the more secular facts of Mormonism.

It may be a theocracy, a fascist corporate state, or reactionary monopolistic capitalism or centralistic socialism -- that aspect does not matter.

Some chiliasts held that the imminent arrival of the Third Millennium would be accompanied by the return of Jesus or Buddha or Krishna or The Prophet, who would establish on Earth a benevolent theocracy, severe in its judgment of mortals.