theocracy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Government under the control of a state religion. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: clericocracy
  2. Rule by a god. countable,uncountable
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.

词形变化

theocracies plural

词汇关系

相关词
theocrat theocratic

词源

From theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..."
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