the|oc|ra|cy «thee OK ruh see», noun, plural -cies.
1. a government in which God, or a god, is recognized as the supreme civil ruler and in which religious authorities rule the state as God's, or a god's, representatives: »
In the little theocracy which the Pilgrims established…the ministry was the only order of nobility (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
2. any government headed by religious authorities.
3. a country or state governed by a theocracy.
╂[< Greek theokratíā < theós god + krátos a rule.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.