What is "theocratic"

Usage examples of "theocratic".

The world-community was now a highly organized theocratic hierarchy, strictly but on the whole benevolently ruled by a supreme council of vital priests and biologists.

That sect, or theocratic nation, which had striven for many centuries toward this goal, had finally attained what they regarded as success.

Ethiopia was then a powerful State, which preceded Egypt in civilization, and had a theocratic government.

New Eden was firmly based on a real theocratic government and its own writings, one alive and well in our own world as the book was written, needing neither Flux nor new technology to exist and even gain adherents elsewhere.

Ecolitans were replaced by the Eco-topians, who sent Trystin Desoll on an assassination mission against a theocratic empire, the Revenants, only to watch him end the war in quite another way.

From time to time Haltern indicated landmarks: the theocratic houses of learning, the Wellhouses .

And psychology has a home in the theocratic houses, if not under that name.

An office held by the members of the church of the Goddess after their training at the theocratic houses.

Ymir is known for its theocratic houses, traders and merchants, beast-tamers, eccentricities of all kinds, and the most convoluted argumentative minds outside of Kasabaarde.

Sometimes I have the queerest feeling that she is planning by some unimaginable means, to re-establish that witch-ridden, so-called theocratic community in this present day and age.

If a revolutionary regime comes to power in Saudi Arabia and subordinates its institutions and mechanics to an anti-Western theocratic expression of nationalist ideology, U.

Nevertheless, the imperialists or the statists insisted on their false charge against the Pope, that he labored to found a purely theocratic or clerocratic government, and finding themselves unable to place the representative of the civil society on the same level with the representative of the spiritual, or to emancipate the state from the law of God while they conceded the divine origin or right of government, they sought to effect its independence by asserting for it only a natural or purely human origin.

If the constitution once given is fixed and unalterable, it must be wholly divine, and contain no human element, and the people have and can have no hand in their own government--the fundamental objection to the theocratic constitution of society.

The attempt at constituting the theocratic Empire of Europe having proved a failure, the more intelligent and ambitious bishops now yielded support to those whom they reckoned upon for reconstituting the power of the Kings of Israel or of the Emperors of Constantinople.

It would serve them right, he thought, the doublespeak theocratic rabble.