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decemvirate|dɪˈsɛmvɪreɪt|
[ad. L. decemvirāt-us, f. decemvir: see -ate1.]
The office or government of decemvirs; a body of decemvirs.
1620E. Blount Horæ Subsec. 233 After the Decemvirate, they returned againe to Consuls. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 369 The Decemvirate regarded neither Senate nor people, but cut off the most considerable Citizens of both sorts. 1838Arnold 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. transf. A body of ten rulers, councillors, etc., as the Venetian Council of Ten. Also attrib.
1651Howell Venice 13 They read the letters addressd to the Decemvirat Colledg. 1653Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) 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. c1776Sir W. Jones Let. Ld. Althorpe, If such a decemvirate should ever attempt to restore our constitutional liberty by constitutional means. |
