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theocrat|ˈθiːəʊkræt|
[f. next: see -crat. Cf. mod.F. théocrate (Littré).]
1. One who rules in a theocracy as the representative of the Deity; a divine or deified ruler.
1827G. S. Faber Orig. Expiat. Sacr. 234 This mode of administering temporal sanctions on the part of the temporal theocrat of Israel. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. vi. iii. (1864) III. 482 Admirers of the great theocrat [Pope Gregory]. 1862Westm. Rev. Jan. 269 Mahomet gradually degenerated..ultimately into a voluptuous tyrant and oppressive theocrat. 1874Reynolds John Baptist viii. 490 The haughty theocrats of Persia dared to call on their subjects to adore them.
2. One who believes in or favours theocratic government; an advocate of theocracy.
1843Emerson Misc. Papers, Carlyle Wks. (Bohn) III. 313 Though no theocrat..Mr. Carlyle..finds the calamity of the times not in bad bills of Parliament, nor the remedy in good bills. 1895Q. Rev. Oct. 355 Disraeli..was a born theocrat. 1897Goldw. Smith in Amer. Hist. Rev. Oct. 138 For all but the aristocracy and extreme theocrats they must have been about the best years that Scotland had known.
¶b. See quot. (? erroneous use).
1864Webster, Theocrat, one who obeys God as his civil ruler. 1882Ogilvie (Annandale), Theocrat, one who lives under a theocracy; one who is ruled in civil affairs directly by God. |