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=== Theocracy === | === Theocracy === | ||
A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the | |||
kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as | |||
his ministers and agents; hence (loosely) a system of government by a | |||
sacerdotal order, claiming a divine commission; also, a state so | |||
governed. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||