a. [f. as prec. + -AL: cf. aristocratical.] = prec.
1690. C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 180. A new common-wealth with a theocratical government.
1755. Warburton, Div. Legat., V. iv. Wks. 1788, III. 123. Temporal rewards and punishments administered by the hand of God, followed, as a consequence, from the Jewish Government’s being Theocratical.
1837. Foreign Q. Rev., XIX. 187. The prophetic books were preserved in writing by a theocratical people.
1863. E. V. Neale, Anal. Th. & Nat., 201. The original form of all governments appears to have been theocratical.
