from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
THEOCRACY. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed
by God.
2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms,
pour regner. par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner
seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De
l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les
moeurs, 189. Religion, which in former times, frequently associated itself
with despotism, to reign, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes
attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God,
theocracy.