(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:09:11

Hi`er*oc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. sacred + to be strong, rule.]

Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.

Jefferson.

 

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