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thearchy

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θεαρχία (thearkhía), from θεός (theós, “god”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”). By surface analysis, the- + -archy.

  1. derived from θεαρχία

Definitions

  1. A government ruled by God or a god

    A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.

    • There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.
    • Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.

  2. A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)

    • From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.
    • Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.
    • When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy […] was already tottering to its fall.

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