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hagiocracy|hægɪˈɒkrəsɪ|
[f. Gr. ἅγιος holy + -cracy.]
A government or sovereignty of persons esteemed holy; spec. as in quot. 1875.
1846Worcester cites Eclectic Rev. 1874J. E. Carpenter tr. Ewald's Hist. Israel V. 198 The internal weakness..of the hagiocracy already betrays itself in the one small but significant circumstance of its treatment of the name of God. 1875Edin. Rev. CXLII. 434 note, The term ‘Hagiocracy’..is employed by Ewald as the designation of that modified form of the theocratical government which was instituted after the return from the Babylonian Captivity. 1884Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 359 [To make] the Mosaic state the ideal which religious men ought to seek resolutely to realize in a hagiocracy. |