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septemvirate|sɛpˈtɛmvɪrət|
[ad. L. septemvirātus, f. septemvir: see septemvir and -ate1.]
1. The office or dignity of a septemvir, government by septemviri.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 72 This reason of State sounds well why the Septemvirate lets it continue there so long. c1642Observ. his Majesty's late Answ. 31 The whole kingdome is not to bee mastered..by the Traine Band,..nor the maior part in Parliament by I know not what septemvirat. 1656Blount Glossogr., Septemvirate, the authority of seven Officers in like power. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, Germany II. 299 [At Nurenberg] The raising of forces or levying taxes, are usually referred to a select number of the council, stiled by way of eminence, the Septemvirate.
2. A group or set of seven men.
1781T. Davies Mem. Garrick (ed. 3) II. 39 note, Swift, in his list of six great men, to whom no seventh (in his opinion) could be added, might have very safely made a septemvirate with Alfred. 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 196 The legend of the Seven Sleepers, a septemvirate of Christian youths. |