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decarchy, dek- Gr. Hist.|ˈdɛkəkɪ|
[ad. Gr. δεκαρχία: see prec. n.]
= decadarchy.
a1638Mede Ep. Dr. Meddus Wks. iv. 781 The Beast's Horns, that is, the ‘eyed’ and ‘mouthed’ Horn with that Decarchy of Horns subject to him. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. 155 A council of ten (a decarchy, as it was commonly called) nominated by himself, was the ordinary substitute for all the ancient forms of polity. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxv, The enormities perpetrated by the Thirty at Athens and by the Lysandrian dekarchies in the other cities. |