theocratical
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Education in this theocratical system is on one side patriarchal.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
This was the beginning of my acquaintance with that most excellent man, whose character I have always admired and loved since, without sharing his theocratical doctrines.
From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Lamartine, Alphonse de
Even in Rome, whose population had a greater tendency for the positive and practical, than for the things of another world, we find the traces of theocratical government.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
This is to be accounted for not only by the fact that his subjects regarded him as endowed with theocratical attributes, but also to the wisdom of his mandates.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.
A review of the patriarchal condition, in extenso, would lead us to give special attention to the theocratical constitution.
