单词 | thearchy |
释义 | thearchyn. 1. The rule or government of God or of a god; a theocracy. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > activities of god(s) > rule or government thearchy1643 society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > theocracy > [noun] theocracya1631 thearchy1643 1643 Subject of Supremacie, etc. 42 There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie. 1643 Maximes Unfolded 8 Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 254 His [the Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude. 2. An order or system of deities. (Cf. hierarchy n. 1, 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > habitation or assemblage of gods pantheon?1545 goddery1811 thearchy1852 pantheonization1883 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 11 From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 245 Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy. 1899 Literary Guide 1 Dec. 178/1 When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy..was already tottering to its fall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1643 |
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