Word Meanings - THEARCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

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• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• THEOCRACY
  1. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity. 2. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
• DIVINERESS
  A woman who divines. Dryden.
• DIVINENESS
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
• DIVINEMENT
  Divination.
• SOVEREIGNTY
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• DIVINE
  divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SUBDIVINE
  Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-GOVERNMENT
  1. The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command. 2. Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also,