demonarchyn.
/ˈdiːmənɑːki/, U.S. /ˈdimənˌɑrki/ Now rare.
Government or rule by demons; a ruling body of demons. In later use chiefly in extended use referring to cruel or wicked political regimes (cf. demon n. 2a). Cf. demonocracy n.
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demonarchy1643
diabolarchy1799
diabolocracy1815
1643 Maximes Unfolded 8 Demonarchie, or the Dominion of the Divell.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 231 Al that pretended Hierarchie or Demonarchie which the Emperor, as supreme Head in al maters Civil and Ecclesiastical, assumed.
1786 J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems I. Pref. p. iii Passing, almost without respite, from the ecclesiastic dæmonarchy of Land to the civil dæmonarchy of Lauderdale.
1828 Trades' Free Press 31 May 355/1 A..retinue of romance, which, with a facility far beyond even that possessed by the Rosycrusian demonarchy, have come trooping.
1913 S. P. Davis Hist. Nevada I. viii. 252 Henry Plummer—the arch fiend in the hideous demonarchy of those days, who..directed the operations of the most notorious band of road agents and murderers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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