Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Government by priests; sacerdotal dominion or supremacy; a hierarchy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

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  • noun Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • _ "hagiocracy," _ of the supreme influence of the priesthood and the rigid adherence to the law, with an inflexible hostility to heathen customs, ensued.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo.

    Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone? 2009

  • “When the Son-of-the-Snake,” inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, “hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?”

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • A related word is hagiocracy (a government by holy persons; also a place thus governed).

    Answers.com: Today's Highlights 2010

  • They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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