theocracy

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• /θiːˈɒkɹəsi/
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• homophone: theocrasy
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From 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..."

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: teokrasie — government under the control of a Church
• Albanian: teokraci — government under the control of a Church
• Arabic: ثِيُقْرَاطِيَّة (ṯiyuqrāṭiyya) — government under the control of a Church
• Armenian: թեոկրատիա (tʻeokratia) — government under the control of a Church
• Armenian: կրոնապետություն (kronapetutʻyun) — government under the control of a Church
• Asturian: teocracia — government under the control of a Church
• Azerbaijani: teokratiya — government under the control of a Church
• Bashkir: теократия (teokratiya) — government under the control of a Church
• Basque: teokrazia — government under the control of a Church
• Belarusian: тэакра́тыя (teakrátyja) — government under the control of a Church
• Bulgarian: теокра́ция (teokrácija) — government under the control of a Church
• Catalan: teocràcia — government under the control of a Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 神權政治 /神权政治 (shénquán zhèngzhì) — government under the control of a Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 政教合一 (zhèngjiào héyī) — government under the control of a Church
• Chuvash: теократи (teokrat̬i) — government under the control of a Church
• Crimean Tatar: teokratiya — government under the control of a Church
• Czech: teokracie — government under the control of a Church
• Danish: teokrati — government under the control of a Church
• Dutch: theocratie — government under the control of a Church
• Esperanto: teokratio — government under the control of a Church
• Estonian: teokraatia — government under the control of a Church
• Finnish: teokratia — government under the control of a Church
• French: théocratie — government under the control of a Church
• Galician: teocracia — government under the control of a Church
• Georgian: თეოკრატია (teoḳraṭia) — government under the control of a Church
• German: Theokratie — government under the control of a Church
• German: Gottesstaat — government under the control of a Church
• German: Kirchenstaat — government under the control of a Church
• Greek: θεοκρατία (theokratía) — government under the control of a Church
• Ancient Greek: θεοκρατία (theokratía) — government under the control of a Church
• Hebrew: תאוקרטיה (teokrátya) — government under the control of a Church
• Hindi: धर्मतंत्र (dharmatantra) — government under the control of a Church
• Hungarian: papi uralom — government under the control of a Church
• Hungarian: teokrácia — government under the control of a Church
• Icelandic: klerkaveldi — government under the control of a Church
• Ido: teokratio — government under the control of a Church
• Indonesian: teokrasi — government under the control of a Church
• Italian: teocrazia — government under the control of a Church
• Japanese: 神権政治 (shinken seiji) — government under the control of a Church
• Kazakh: теократия (teokratiä) — government under the control of a Church
• Korean: 신권 정치 (sin'gwon jeongchi) — government under the control of a Church
• Korean: 제정 일치 (jejeong ilchi) — government under the control of a Church
• Kyrgyz: теократия (teokratiya) — government under the control of a Church
• Lao: ເທວາທິປະໄຕ (th thi pa tai) — government under the control of a Church
• Latvian: teokrātija — government under the control of a Church
• Lithuanian: teokratija — government under the control of a Church
• Macedonian: теократија (teokratija) — government under the control of a Church
• Malay: teokrasi — government under the control of a Church
• Maltese: teokrazija — government under the control of a Church
• Norwegian Bokmål: teokrati — government under the control of a Church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teokrati — government under the control of a Church
• Occitan: teocracia — government under the control of a Church
• Persian: تئوکراسی (te'okrâsi) — government under the control of a Church
• Polish: teokracja — government under the control of a Church
• Portuguese: teocracia — government under the control of a Church
• Romanian: teocrație — government under the control of a Church
• Russian: теокра́тия (teokrátija) — government under the control of a Church
• Russian: церко́вное госуда́рство (cerkóvnoje gosudárstvo) — government under the control of a Church
• Serbo-Croatian: теократија — government under the control of a Church
• Serbo-Croatian: теокрација — government under the control of a Church
• Serbo-Croatian: teokratija — government under the control of a Church
• Serbo-Croatian: teokracija — government under the control of a Church
• Sicilian: teocrazzìa — government under the control of a Church
• Sikkimese: ཆོ་གཞི (cho gzhi) — government under the control of a Church
• Slovak: teokracia — government under the control of a Church
• Slovene: teokracija — government under the control of a Church
• Spanish: teocracia — government under the control of a Church
• Swedish: teokrati — government under the control of a Church
• Tagalog: teokrasya — government under the control of a Church
• Tajik: теократия (teokratiya) — government under the control of a Church
• Thai: เทวาธิปไตย (tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai) — government under the control of a Church
• Turkish: teokrasi — government under the control of a Church
• Ukrainian: теокра́тія (teokrátija) — government under the control of a Church
• Uzbek: teokratiya — government under the control of a Church
• Vietnamese: thần quyền — government under the control of a Church
• Yiddish: טעאָקראַציע (teokratsye) — government under the control of a Church
• Catalan: teocràcia — rule by God or gods
• Finnish: teokratia — rule by God or gods
• French: théocratie — rule by God or gods
• Icelandic: guðveldi — rule by God or gods
• Spanish: teocracia — rule by God or gods
• Thai: เทวาธิปไตย (tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai) — rule by God or gods