hagiarchy
English
Etymology
hagio- + -archy
Noun
hagiarchy (plural hagiarchies)
- A sacred government run by holy 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
- 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hagiarchy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)