theocracy

Etymology
, originally from, a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in ''A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason'': "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..."

Noun

 * 1) Government under the control of a state religion.
 * 2) Rule by a god.
 * 1) Rule by a god.
 * 1) Rule by a god.
 * 1) Rule by a god.
 * 1) Rule by a god.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ثِيُقْرَاطِيَّة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: teocracia
 * Azerbaijani: teokratiya
 * Bashkir: теократия
 * Basque: teokrazia
 * Belarusian: тэакра́тыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: teocràcia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ，
 * Chuvash: теократи
 * Crimean Tatar: teokratiya
 * Czech: teokracie
 * Danish: teokrati
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: teokratio
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თეოკრატია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θεοκρατία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: धर्मतंत्र
 * Hungarian: papi uralom,
 * Icelandic: klerkaveldi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 神権政治
 * Kazakh: теократия
 * Korean: 신권 정치(神權政治), 제정 일치(神權一致)
 * Kyrgyz: теократия
 * Lao: ເທວາທິປະໄຕ
 * Latvian: teokrātija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: теократија
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: teokrazija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: teokrati
 * Occitan: teocracia
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: теократија, теокрација
 * Roman: teokratija ,
 * Sicilian: teocrazzìa
 * Slovak: teokracia
 * Slovene: teokracija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: teokrasya
 * Tajik: теократия
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: теокра́тія
 * Uzbek: teokratiya
 * Vietnamese: (神權)
 * Yiddish: טעאָקראַציע


 * Catalan: teocràcia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Icelandic: guðveldi
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: