Priest-king

"Priest-king" in a Sentence (4 examples)

The while this Priest-King sacrifiz'd To's clov'n-foot God in Bethel (self-devis'd).

The beginnings of organized war, first as a bickering between villages, and then as a more disciplined struggle between the priest-king and god of one city and those of another.

Lower Egypt throws off the yoke of the priest-Kings of Thebes.

He was more like a priest-king, a combination of the Pope and a constitutional monarch.

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