thearchy

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.

   “There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.”

   “Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.”

   “It seemed to human reasoning impossible to convert the Jew from his grand and simple creed, to modify or to explain it, to add to it, or to take away from it, in the slightest degree to alter his belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude, of tradition, of national isolation and characteristic pride of race.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)

   “From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.”

   “Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.”

   “When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy […] was already tottering to its fall.”