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satrapy|ˈseɪtrəpɪ, ˈsætrəpɪ|
[a. F. satrapie, ad. L. satrapīa, satrapēa, a. Gr. σατραπεία, f. σατράπης satrap.]
1. A province ruled over by a satrap.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 127 At length they with their Kingdome, and all the rest of the Turkish Satrapies, were..swallowed vp and deuoured. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended iv. (1728) 325 When Cyrus took Babylon, he changed the Kingdom into a Satrapy or Province. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i. 408 Repair to your respective satrapies Of Babylon and Media. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxiii. IV. 315 Darius distributed the Persian empire into twenty satrapies.
b. transf.
a1641Sir H. Spelman Anc. Govt. Eng. Posth. Wks. (1698) 50 The Temporal Government was likewise divided into Satrapies or Dukedoms, which contained in them divers Counties. 1864Even. Stand. 29 Sept., Major General Butler..was ill calculated to rule a Federal satrapy with profit to his government. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 110 They [the Galileans] detested..alike the Roman dominion and the Herodian satrapy which was its outward sign. 1887Goldw. Smith in Times 3 Dec. 10/3 The abolition of what is now styled an Austrian satrapy.
2. The dignity of a satrap: in quots. transf.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. i. 4 Yea the Angels themselves..are distinguisht and quaterniond into their celestiall Princedomes, and Satrapies. 1839Bailey Festus xxxi. (1852) 506 Jewels well worth the satrapies of Heaven.
†3. The body of satraps. Obs.
1693Rymer Short View Trag. 11 Xerxes went also in person, with all the Maison de Roy, Satrapie and Gendarmery.
4. The period of rule of a satrap.
1846Grote Greece i. xv. I. 454 A century afterwards, during the satrapy of Pharnabazus. |