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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theocracy \The*oc"ra*cy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? God + ? to be strong, to rule, fr. ? strength: cf. F. th['e]ocratie. See Theism, and cf. Democracy.]
Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1737; earlier as un-Latinized theocraty (1620s), "form of government in which God is recognized as supreme ruler and his laws form the statute book," originally of the sacerdotal government of Israel before the rise of kings, from later Greek theokratia (Josephus), literally "the rule of God," from theos "god" (see theo-) + kratos "a rule, regime, strength" (see -cracy). Meaning "priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power" is recorded from 1825. Related: Theocratic (1741).
Wiktionary
n. 1 government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.
2 Rule by a god.
WordNet
n. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
the belief in government by divine guidance
Wikipedia
Theocracy or Ecclesiocracy is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives. The Oxford English Dictionary has this definition:
A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents; hence (loosely) a system of government by a sacerdotal order, claiming a divine commission; also, a state so governed.Theocracy is a real-time strategy game for the PC developed by Philos Laboratories and published by Ubisoft in 2000. The game takes place in Mexico and Central America in the 15th century. The player controls a tribe in this region, and has 100 years to prepare for a Spanish invasion by expanding their territory across the Central American map, by conquest, or by allying and trading with other tribes.
Theocracy is a Christian progressive power metal band founded in 2002 by Matt Smith of Athens, Georgia. The group originally started out as a one-man project and all the instruments and vocals done on the debut album Theocracy were performed by Smith. The current lineup includes Smith along with Patrick Nickell, Jonathan Hinds, Jared Oldham, and Val Allen Wood. Musically, the band mixes the power metal style of Edguy, Iced Earth, and Helloween with progressive influences from bands such as Dream Theater, Symphony X, Kansas and Rush.
The group performed at the ProgPower USA VII festival Pre-Party in Atlanta, Georgia. Live performances from the show of the songs "The Serpent's Kiss" and "Mountain" were included on the ProgPower VII DVD. Their second album, Mirror of Souls, was released on Sweden's Ulterium Records and features cover artwork by Robert G. Wilson, Jr. A song, "On Eagles Wings", which is on that album, can be heard on the band's official MySpace page. Mirror of Souls was released on November 26, 2008 in Japan by Soundholic Records. The Japanese version contains the bonus track "Wages of Sin". The North American edition was released December 9, 2008. A picture disc LP was released through the record labels web store containing "Mirror of Souls", "Laying the Demon to Rest", "Absolution Day" and "The Wages of Sin". This LP was limited to 250 copies worldwide.
The band's latest album, As the World Bleeds, was released on November 21, 2011 in North America and on November 25, 2011 in Europe. After releasing their new album Theocracy released their first official music video from the new album, entitled "Hide in the Fairytale" on September 5, 2012.
The band embarked on a European tour to promote the remastered re-release of the self-titled album in November 2013. The tour consisted of smaller venue shows as well as larger festivals including Brainstorm Festival in The Netherlands, Blast of Eternity and Rock Without Limits in Germany, and Maata Näkyvissä Festival in Finland. Joshua Street filled in for drummer Shawn Benson for this tour.
Theocracy is the self-titled debut album by the Christian progressive/ power metal band Theocracy. It was released in 2003 on MetalAges Records. The album was a one-man project created by musician Matt Smith. The album was remastered and re-released in 2013 consisting of various mixing upgrades performed by Matt Smith and the addition of live drums recorded by Theocracy drummer Shawn Benson.
Theocracy is a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler.
Theocrasy is a word referring to a mixture of deities or religious forms.
Theocracy may also refer to:
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Theocracy (band), a metal band
- Theocracy (album), an album by the same band
- Theocracy (computer game), a computer strategy game
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.