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octarchy|ˈɒktɑːkɪ|
[f. Gr. ὀκτώ eight + -αρχία rule, f. -αρχος ruling, ruler.]
A government by eight rulers; an aggregate of eight tribal or petty kingdoms each under its own ruler: applied by some historians (instead of heptarchy) to the eight kingdoms reckoned by them to have been established by the Angles and Saxons in Britain.
1799–1805S. Turner Anglo-Sax. (1836) I. iii. v. 190 Eight Anglo-Saxon governments were established... This state of Britain has been improperly denominated the Saxon heptarchy. When all the kingdoms were settled, they formed an octarchy. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. II. 91 One of the northern kingdoms of the Octarchy. 1889Sat. Rev. 16 Nov. 566/2 His plan for the division of England..into an octarchy of provinces. |