theocracy
(noun) the belief in government by divine guidance
theocracy
(noun) a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
theocracy (countable and uncountable, plural theocracies)
Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.
Rule by a god.
• sharia law
Source: Wiktionary
The*oc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Gr. théocratie. See Theism, and cf. Democracy.]
1. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
2. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
