单词 | theocrat |
释义 | theocratn. 1. One who rules in a theocracy as the representative of the Deity; a divine or deified ruler. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > theocracy > [noun] > instance > ruler of theocrat1827 1827 G. S. Faber Origin Expiat. Sacrifice 234 This mode of administering temporal sanctions on the part of the temporal theocrat of Israel. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. iii. 94 Admirers of the great theocrat [Pope Gregory]. 1862 Westm. Rev. Jan. 269 Mahomet gradually degenerated..ultimately into a voluptuous tyrant and oppressive theocrat. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 490 The haughty theocrats of Persia dared to call on their subjects to adore them. 2. a. One who believes in or favours theocratic government; an advocate of theocracy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > hierarchy > [noun] > supporter hierarchist1640 theocrat1843 1843 R. W. Emerson Carlyle in Wks. (1906) 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. 1895 Q. Rev. Oct. 355 Disraeli..was a born theocrat. 1897 Goldw. 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. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Theocrat, one who obeys God as his civil ruler. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Theocrat, one who lives under a theocracy; one who is ruled in civil affairs directly by God. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1827 |
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