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 apriesthood ;hierarchy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ "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
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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
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“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
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A related word is hagiocracy (a government by holy persons; also a place thus governed).
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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.
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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.
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