- German state - Hitler's realm, The Third ... - Hitler’s realm, The Third ... - Hitler’s Third ... - Nazi dictatorship; The Third ... - Nazi state, Third —
- To cause to act through an agent or to hold a
subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the
annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to
a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his
rank.
- One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German
physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the
punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and
that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is
one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the
State.