单词 | sexvirate |
释义 | sexviraten. In ancient Roman society: = sevirate n. Also more generally: any group of six persons who rule jointly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six > people sextumvirate1726 sexvirate1762 six1796 sixsome1934 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. II. 374 The eldest of the six professors which constitute the sexvirate of the college is styled primicerius. 1861 Eagle 2 280 If while one Dissenter is admitted, another..with more heterodox tenets is to be rejected, it will soon be necessary to establish a new Sexvirate. 1928 E. A. Parker tr. V. Chapot Rom. World 109 The sexvirate was abolished earlier in some towns than in others. 1938 C. Hollis Lenin xi. 272 Power was exercised by a sexvirate of Trotzky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rykov, Kalinin, and Stalin. 1989 tr. in H. H. J. Brouwer Bona Dea 59 Secundus, freedman of Julius Quadratus, consul for the second time, because of the dignity of the sexvirate, and Italia, freedwoman of the same,..have dedicated this on 18 September. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1762 |
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