decemvirate
English
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edit- Decemvirate (specific uses)
- (misspelling): decimvirate
Etymology
editFrom Latin decemvirātus, from decemvirī (“decemvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Noun
editdecemvirate (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.