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1. The rule of priests or religious dignitaries; government by priests or ecclesiastics.
2. A body of ruling priests or ecclesiastics.

Personal rule or government.

1. A lack of ability to read and write.
2. The state of being illiterate; lack of any or enough education.
3. A mistake in writing or speaking, felt to be characteristic of an illiterate or semiliterate person.

1. The quality or condition of being immediate.
2. Freedom from intermediate or intervening agency; direct relation or connexion; directness; such as, "The immediacy of live-television news coverage."

1. A lack of an adequate quantity or number.
2. A lack of competence; insufficiency.

Being unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.

Equality of power or rule; a system of government in which all the people possess equal political power.

Equality of power or rule; a system of government in which all the people possess equal political power.

The government of a state by the worst citizens.

1. A government characterized by rampant greed and corruption.
2. A ruling body or order of thieves; a government run by thieves; a nation ruled by this kind of government.

A government by judges; the governmental rule of judges in which they reach “desirable results” that fit some particular social philosophy.

1. Money or property that is left to someone in a will.
2. Something that is handed down or remains from a previous generation or time.
3. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past: "We have received a legacy of religious freedom."

1. The fact of being a legitimate child.
2. The condition of being in accordance with law or principle. Now often, with respect to a sovereign's title, in a narrower sense: The fact of being derived by regular descent; occasionally the principle of lineal succession to the throne, as a political doctrine.
3. Conformity to rule or principle; lawfulness.