单词 | diabolarchy |
释义 | diabolarchyn. Now rare. Government or rule by a devil or devils; a ruling body of devils. Also in extended use with reference to a cruel or wicked political regime. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > rule by kingdomc1384 demonarchy1643 diabolarchy1799 diabolocracy1815 1799 Ann. Hampshire Repository 1 Pref. p. xii The question..is..whether we prefer the presence of any, whatever form of Theocracy, prevailing in the rest of the world, to the absence of them all, the Diabolarchy of France. 1845 J. Oxlee Three Lett. Archbishop Canterb. & Confut. Diabolarchy i. 35 The dogma of a Diabolarchy could have been first revealed to the world neither by Moses nor by Christ. 1879 M. D. Conway Demonol. II. iv. xix. 212 A great deal might be plausibly said for this atmospheric diabolarchy. 1916 C. W. Super German Idealism & Prussian Militarism xxiii. 88 At the head is the nobility and the military caste, which constitutes a sort of interlocking diabolarchy. 1991 E. Wagner Witchcraft, Rebellion, & Misrule (M.A. diss., Concordia Univ., Montreal) 4 The ‘eventual victory’ is not over Joan [of Arc], but over a metaphoric diabolarchy that the witch has helped to establish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1799 |
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