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Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

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 state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Hippocras. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

ce relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

h 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

ombining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

rsued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.