mageocracy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mage +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy

Noun[edit]

mageocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mageocracies)

  1. (fantasy) Synonym of magocracy.
    • 2016, Luke Scull, Sword of the North[1], page 276:
      She was the greatest wizard of her age and might have reconciled the church with the mageocracy.
    • 2018, Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God, unnumbered page:
      A mageocracy like the Setharii Empire was probably not the most efficient of governments, but nobody else could ever dream of controlling the hundreds of Gifted throughout the empire.
    • 2020, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, back cover blurb:
      With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, the Inquisition sends some of their best agents to retrieve a powerful elven relic before the Tevinter magisters can unleash it to devastating effect.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mageocracy.