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quaˈdrumvirate|kwɒˈdrʌmvɪrət|
[for *quattuorvirate, on anal. of duum-, triumvirate.]
A union of four men. So † quaˈdrumvir, one of four men.
1752Fielding Covent Gard. Jrnl. 21 Mar., This quadrumvirate..called themselves ‘The Wits’. 1790Bystander 38 A quadrumvirate appeared almost at the same time. Ibid., Taking a seat as a quadrumvir. 1923Contemp. Rev. Feb. 151 He [sc. Mussolini] formed a quadrumvirate.. to whom he entrusted full powers. 1955Times 3 May 11/3 He is the third to go of the quadrumvirate who for much of the post-war period held the leadership of the Trades Union Congress largely in their hands. 1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest viii. 155 Colonel Fiqri Dine,..one of the original quadrumvirate of chiefs that had helped Zog in his early days of power. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 315/3 Osler..one of the remarkable quadrumvirate who established the Johns Hopkins Medical School. |