THEOCRAC

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  THEOCRACY. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed 
  by God. 
       2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms, 
  pour regner. par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner 
  seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De 
  l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les 


  moeurs, 189. Religion, which in former times, frequently associated itself 
  with despotism, to reign, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes 
  attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God, 
  theocracy.