quatrumvirate
English
editEtymology
editFrom alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.
Noun
editquatrumvirate (plural quatrumvirates)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
- 1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:
- For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe.
References
edit- "†quatrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.