decemviraten.
/dɪˈsɛmvɪreɪt/ a. The office or government of decemvirs; a body of decemvirs.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [noun] > decemvir > office or association of
decemvirship1600
decemvirate1620
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 233 After the Decemvirate, they returned againe to Consuls.
1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. iii. xviii. 384 The Decemvirate regarded neither Senate nor People, but cut off the most considerable Citizens of both sorts.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. xv. 302 The decemvirate seems indeed to have exhibited the perfect model of an aristocratical royalty, vested not in one person but in several.
b. transferred. A body of ten rulers, councillors, etc., as the Venetian Council of Ten. Also attributive.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > joint ruler > [noun] > one of specific number of > set of specific number of
triumvirate1584
triumvirship1597
triumviry1598
decemvir1600
pentarchy1607
triumvir1619
decarchya1638
decemvirate1651
tetrarchy1716
decadarchy1849
triarchy1859
triarchate1881
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 13 They read the letters addressd to the Decemvirat Colledg.
1653 E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 12 The room..is now possessed by the Decemvirate or ten Worthies that now reign far more absolutely than ever any King did in England.
1777 W. Jones Let. 22 Nov. (1970) 247 If such a decemvirate should ever attempt to restore our constitutional liberty by constitutional means.
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