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Noun [English]

IPA: /θiːˈɒkɹəsi/ Audio: en-us-theocracy.ogg [US] Forms: theocracies [plural]
Etymology: theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..." Etymology templates: {{confix|en|theo|cracy}} theo- + -cracy, {{uder|en|grc|θεοκρατία||rule of (a) God}} Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} theocracy (countable and uncountable, plural theocracies)
  1. Government under the control of a state religion. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Forms of government, Religion, Theocracy Translations (government under the control of a Church): teokrasie (Afrikaans), teokraci (Albanian), θεοκρατία (theokratía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ثِيُقْرَاطِيَّة (ṯiyuqrāṭiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), թեոկրատիա (tʻeokratia) (Armenian), կրոնապետություն (kronapetutʻyun) (Armenian), teocracia [feminine] (Asturian), teokratiya (Azerbaijani), теократия (teokratiya) (Bashkir), teokrazia (Basque), тэакра́тыя (teakrátyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), теокра́ция (teokrácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), teocràcia [feminine] (Catalan), 神權政治 (Chinese Mandarin), 神权政治 (shénquán zhèngzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), 政教合一 (zhèngjiào héyī) (Chinese Mandarin), теократи (teokrat̬i) (Chuvash), teokratiya (Crimean Tatar), teokracie [feminine] (Czech), teokrati [common-gender] (Danish), theocratie [feminine] (Dutch), teokratio (Esperanto), teokraatia (Estonian), teokratia (Finnish), théocratie [feminine] (French), teocracia [feminine] (Galician), თეოკრატია (teoḳraṭia) (Georgian), Theokratie [feminine] (German), Gottesstaat [masculine] (German), θεοκρατία (theokratía) [feminine] (Greek), תאוקרטיה (teokrátya) [feminine] (Hebrew), धर्मतंत्र (dharmatantra) (Hindi), papi uralom (Hungarian), teokrácia (Hungarian), klerkaveldi [neuter] (Icelandic), teokratio (Ido), teokrasi (Indonesian), teocrazia [feminine] (Italian), 神権政治 (shinken seiji) (alt: しんけんせいじ) (Japanese), теократия (teokratiä) (Kazakh), 신권 정치 (sin'gwon jeongchi) (alt: 神權政治) (Korean), 제정 일치 (jejeong ilchi) (alt: 神權一致) (Korean), теократия (teokratiya) (Kyrgyz), ເທວາທິປະໄຕ (thē wā thi pa tai) (Lao), teokrātija [feminine] (Latvian), teokratija [feminine] (Lithuanian), теократија (teokratija) [feminine] (Macedonian), teokrasi (Malay), teokrazija [feminine] (Maltese), teokrati [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), teokrati [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), teocracia [feminine] (Occitan), تئوکراسی (te'okrâsi) (Persian), teokracja [feminine] (Polish), teocracia [feminine] (Portuguese), teocrație [feminine] (Romanian), теокра́тия (teokrátija) [feminine] (Russian), теократија [Bosnia, Cyrillic, Serbia, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), теокрација [Croatia, Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), teokratija [Bosnia, Roman, Serbia, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), teokracija [Croatia, Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), teocrazzìa [feminine] (Sicilian), teokracia [feminine] (Slovak), teokracija [feminine] (Slovene), teocracia [feminine] (Spanish), teokrati [common-gender] (Swedish), teokrasya (Tagalog), теократия (teokratiya) (Tajik), เทวาธิปไตย (tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai) (Thai), teokrasi (Turkish), теокра́тія (teokrátija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), teokratiya (Uzbek), thần quyền (alt: 神權) (Vietnamese), טעאָקראַציע (teokratsye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-theocracy-en-noun-tcRlFCHp Disambiguation of Forms of government: 96 4 Disambiguation of Religion: 62 38 Disambiguation of Theocracy: 77 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with theo-, English terms suffixed with -cracy, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with theo-: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cracy: 90 10 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'government under the control of a Church': 92 8
  2. Rule by a god. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (rule by God or gods): teocràcia [feminine] (Catalan), teokratia (Finnish), théocratie [feminine] (French), guðveldi [neuter] (Icelandic), teocracia [feminine] (Spanish), เทวาธิปไตย (tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-theocracy-en-noun--YAdj3kE Disambiguation of 'rule by God or gods': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: sharia law Related terms: theocrat, theocratic

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      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "ເທວາທິປະໄຕ"
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      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocrație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "teokrátija",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "теокра́тия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "Bosnia",
        "Cyrillic",
        "Serbia",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "теократија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "Croatia",
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "теокрација"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "Bosnia",
        "Roman",
        "Serbia",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teokratija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "Croatia",
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teokracija"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocrazzìa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teokracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teokracija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "teokrati"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "teokrasya"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "teokratiya",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "теократия"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "เทวาธิปไตย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "teokrasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "teokrátija",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "теокра́тія"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "teokratiya"
    },
    {
      "alt": "神權",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "word": "thần quyền"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "teokratsye",
      "sense": "government under the control of a Church",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "טעאָקראַציע"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocràcia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "word": "teokratia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "théocratie"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "guðveldi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teocracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai",
      "sense": "rule by God or gods",
      "word": "เทวาธิปไตย"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "theocracy"
  ],
  "word": "theocracy"
}

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