decemvirate
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English[edit]
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- Decemvirate (specific uses)
- (misspelling): decimvirate
Etymology[edit]
From Latin decemvirātus, from decemvirī (“decemvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Noun[edit]
decemvirate (plural decemvirates)
- A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
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References[edit]
- "decemvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- “decemvirate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.