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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogæa), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.

mbling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine.

Anointed by God.

Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols. This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in him [Solomon] the proper service of idols. J. Murphy.

One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.

A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed.

Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.

Of or relating to theogony.

Theogony. [R.]

A writer on theogony.

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

A pretender or quack in theology. [R.] Burton.

A theologian. Cudworth.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

Theological.

Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. -- The`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Theology. Young.