'Theocracy' definitions:
Definition of 'theocracy'
(from WordNet)
noun
A political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
noun
The belief in government by divine guidance
Definition of 'Theocracy'
From: GCIDE
- Theocracy \The*oc"ra*cy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? God + ? to be strong, to rule, fr. ? strength: cf. F. th['e]ocratie. See Theism, and cf. Democracy.]
- 1. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'theocracy'
From: Easton
- Theocracy a word first used by Josephus to denote that the Jews were under the direct government of God himself. The nation was in all things subject to the will of their invisible King. All the people were the servants of Jehovah, who ruled over their public and private affairs, communicating to them his will through the medium of the prophets. They were the subjects of a heavenly, not of an earthly, king. They were Jehovah's own subjects, ruled directly by him (comp. 1 Sam. 8:6-9).
Synonyms of 'theocracy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarchy,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- social democracy,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state