hagiarchy
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edithagiarchy (plural hagiarchies)
- A government run by holy or religious people.
- 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.:
- St. Benedict and the Seraphic St. Francis, personages of the highest order in the hagiarchy, found it necessary to prescribe for themselves a roll among the briars
References
edit- “hagiarchy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.