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ethnarch|ˈɛθnɑːk|
[ad. Gr. ἐθνάρχ-ης, f. ἔθν-ος nation + -αρχος ruler.]
A governor of a nation or people; a ruler over a province.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. 95 They [the Jews] had their Ethnarchs, Toparchs, high-Priests, Rulers, Princes, and sometime Kings of their owne. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. iv, Cæsar..did not appoint a King over them [the Jews], but a Governour, whom they called an Ethnarch. 1778Apthorpe Preval. Chr. 210 Julius Cæsar..authorized Hyrcanus and his children to be ethnarchs of the Jews. 1879C. Geikie Christ 30 Pompey set up Hyrcanus as high priest and ruler, under the title of ethnarch. |