| 单词 | priest-king |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspriest-king priest-king n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > other types of king folk-kingOE boy-king1603 priest-king1606 shepherd king1744 king-emperor1789 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > also a ruler priest-king1606 priest-ruler1891 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. iii. 169 The while this Priest-King sacrifiz'd To's clov'n-foot God in Bethel (self-devis'd). 1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 55 Lower Egypt throws off the yoke of the priest-Kings of Thebes. 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. iii. xix. 124/2 The beginnings of organized war, first as a bickering between villages, and then as a more disciplined struggle between the priest-king and god of one city and those of another [in Mesopotamia]. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Sept. 32/1 He was more like a priest-king, a combination of the Pope and a constitutional monarch. < as lemmas |
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