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thearchy|ˈθiːəkɪ|
[ad. eccl. Gr. θεαρχία, f. θεός God + -αρχία a ruling.]
1. The rule or government of God or of a god; a theocracy.
1643Subject of Supremacie, etc. 42 There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie. c1643Maximes Unfolded 8 Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 254 His [the Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.
2. An order or system of deities. (Cf. hierarchy 1, 3.)
1839Bailey Festus i. (1852) 11 From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 245 Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy. 1899Literary Guide 1 Dec. 178/1 When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy..was already tottering to its fall. |