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septemvir|sɛpˈtɛmvə(r)|
Pl. septemviri |-vɪraɪ|.
[L., sing. of septemvirī, f. septem seven + virī men.]
One of a body of seven men associated in an office or commission.
a1760W. Duncan Sel. Orat. Cicero xvi. (1841) 355 Did you not desert him, when he put up for being a septemvir? 1841Brewster Martyrs Sci. ii. i. 132 John and Paul Hainzel, the one a septemvir, and the other the consul or burgomaster. 1883Sat. Rev. 5 May 560/1 The scheme of Honours examinations..proposed by Professor Seeley and the other septemviri is simplicity itself. |