(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:23:59

Sta*toc"ra*cy (?), n. [State + -cracy, as in democracy.]

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.

[R.]

O. A. Brownson.

 

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