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toparch|ˈtɒpɑːk|
[ad. Gr. τοπάρχης ruler of a small district, f. τόπ-ος place + -αρχης ruler. Cf. mod.F. toparque.]
The ruler or prince of a small district, city, or petty state; a petty ‘king’.
1640Fuller Joseph's Coat 11 By those many Kings mentioned in the old Testament, thirty and one in the little land of Canaan,..is meant onely Toparchs, not great Kings, but Lords of a little Dition, and Dominion. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. viii. 353 Toparks, Kings of Cities or narrow territories, such as were the Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah, the Kings of Jericho and Ai. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. xi. iii. §2 The toparchs of India and Ethiopia. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) I. xxii. 162 The top-arch, Turlogh O'Connor, was the friend of O'Rourke.
So toˈparchical a. [-ical], of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a toparch or toparchy.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. xiv. 302 Communicating it to the Sons and Nephews of Toparchicall Princes. |