different between thearchy vs theism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (thearkhía), from ???? (theós, “god”) + -????? (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”).

Noun

thearchy (countable and uncountable, plural thearchies)

1. A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
   • 1643, Subject of Supremacie, 42:

     There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.

   • 1643, Maximes Unfolded, 8:

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

   • 1863, G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, I?254:

     [The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.

2. A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
   • 1852, P.J. Bailey, Festus, 11:

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

   • 1876, W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism, 245:

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

   • 1899 Dec. 1, Literary Guide, 178?1:

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

Related terms

• thearch (1)
• theocracy (1)
• hierarchy (2)

References

Anagrams

• hatchery

English

Etymology 1

Coined, theo- +? -ism. ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god”). Attested in English from 1678, theist being attested 16 years earlier in 1662. Cognate French théisme,, as in Diderot Principes de la philosophie morale (1745), which was probably borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?z?m/

Noun

theism (countable and uncountable, plural theisms)

1. Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
2. (strictly) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
   • 1999, Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66

     The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• agnosticism
• deism
• divine
• pandeism

References

Etymology 2

Borrowing from New Latin thea (“tea”, noun) + English -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?z?m/

Noun

theism (uncountable) (pathology)

2. A morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea.

Synonyms

• theaism
• theinism

Coordinate terms

• caffeinism

References

Anagrams

• Themis, Thiems, hemist, mithes