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syndic n

(government) A government official having different duties depending on the country; also, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva, Switzerland. (chiefly British) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise; specifically, in the University of Cambridge, a member of the senate appointed to carry out specific duties. Dutch artist Rembrandt, who painted Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild (1662) which has been called his “last great collective portrait”, was born on this day 415 years ago in 1606.

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