单词 | heptarch |
释义 | heptarchn. a. A ruler of one of seven divisions of a country; one of the rulers of the Heptarchy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > of a part of a country tetrarch1610 pentarch1713 heptarch1822 triarch1886 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 410 Ere yet the bloody Heptarch had controll'd, Or yet Northumbria knew the Saxon's power. 1853 W. S. Landor Popery xi. 33. ΚΠ 1679 T. Harby Key Sacred Script. ii. 27 The Secular successive Heptarch of the Apostacy of Antichrist. Derivatives hepˈtarchal adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > relating to group of kingdoms heptarchic1782 heptarchical1854 heptarchal1859 1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. i. 7 Many of the heptarchal kings..exchanging the crown for the cowl. hepˈtarchic adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > relating to group of kingdoms heptarchic1782 heptarchical1854 heptarchal1859 1782 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 69 The Saxons practised this mode of fixing the several extents of their heptarchic empire. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. vii. 171 The heptarchic king was as much stronger than the tribal king, as the king of united England was stronger than the heptarchic king. hepˈtarchical adj. of or pertaining to a heptarchy, esp. to the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > relating to group of kingdoms heptarchic1782 heptarchical1854 heptarchal1859 1854 Fraser's Mag. 49 152 We should return to the heptarchical regime of local self-government. ΚΠ 1782 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 48 In 752, the Saxon heptarchists, Cuthred and Ethelbald, fought a desperate battle at Beorgford, or Burford. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). heptarchadj. Botany. Arising from seven distinct points of origin, as the xylem of the root of some plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > having particular number of points of origin heptarch1884 octarch1884 oligarch1884 pentarch1884 polyarch1884 tetrarch1884 triarch1884 hexarch1900 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 350 In the two species mentioned [Lycopodium clavatum, Alpinum] the xylem is hexarch to dekarch, very often heptarch. 1914 M. Drummond tr. G. Haberlandt Physiol. Plant Anat. vii. 353 (caption) The heptarch radial bundle [sc. stele] of an adventitious root. 1951 R. C. McLean & W. R. Ivimey-Cook Textbk. Theoret. Bot. I. xx. 791 Dicotyledons usually have two..four..or five xylem groups, less frequently three (triarch) or seven (heptarch), and rarely more. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1679adj.1884 |
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