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单词 heptarchy
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heptarchyn.

Brit. /ˈhɛptɑːki/, U.S. /ˈhɛpˌtɑrki/
Etymology: < modern Latin heptarchia, < Greek ἑπτά hepta- comb. form + -αρχία sovereignty, empire, after tetrarchy.
A government by seven rulers; an aggregate of seven districts or petty kingdoms, each under its own ruler; spec. the seven kingdoms reckoned to have been established by the Angles and Saxons in Britain. The term appears to have been introduced by 16th cent. historians, in accordance with their notion that there were seven Angle and Saxon kingdoms so related that one of their rulers had always the supreme position of King of the Angle-kin (Rex gentis Anglorum), ‘so that in the Heptarchy itself there seems always to have been a Monarchy’ (Camden). The correctness and propriety of the designation have been often called in question, but its practical convenience has preserved it in use. See, besides the authors quoted, Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (1878) II. viii. i. 270, 354–6; Sir J. Mackintosh England (1846) I. ii. 31; Penny Cycl. IX. 406; Freeman Norm. Conq. I. ii. 22; Stubbs Const. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 169; Edith Thompson Hist. Eng. ii. §2.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by specific number of rulers > [noun] > by seven
heptarchy1576
septarchy1601
septemvirate1656
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of king or royal ruler > group of kingdoms
heptarchy1576
pentarchy1587
tetrarchya1640
polyarchy1648
triarchy1660
hexarchy1799
octarchy1799
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 1 (heading) The exposition of this Map of the English Heptarchie, or seauen kingdomes.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 5 I will proceede to set foorth the rest of the vse of this chard of thee English Heptarchie.
1586 W. Camden Brit. 48 (margin) [Monarchia semper in Anglorum Heptarchia] Postquam enim in Britanniæ possessione pedem firmassent, in septem regna distribuerunt, Heptarchiamque constituerunt..tamen..vt Monarchiam in ipsa Heptarchia semper fuisse videatur. (See quot. 1610.)]
1592 J. Stow Annales 63 Vntill the time that this Heptarchie, or Gouernement of seuen, was reduced to a Monarchie, or regiment of one.
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 359 The Saxon Heptarchia or their seauen Kingdomes.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 136 After that these nations above said, had now gotten sure footing in the possession of Britain, they divided it into seuen kingdomes, and established an Heptarchie.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 30 In that Heptarchie of our Saxons, vsually six of the Kings were but as subiects to the supreme.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 308 Almeyda in despight of her united Heptarchy landed here [i.e. in Ceylon] Anno Dom. 1506.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 67 Hee ought to suspect a Hierarchy to bee as dangerous and derogatory from his Crown as a Tetrarchy or a Heptarchy.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 60 The next returning Planetary Hour Of Mars, who shar'd the Heptarchy of Pow'r.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. a3 The inhabitants of Cornwall..remained partly in a state of independence during the Saxon heptarchy.
1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. Pref. p. vii Ceawlin..changed the Saxon octarchy into a temporary heptarchy.
1812 G. Canning Speech House Commons 3 Feb. in Hansard 1st Ser. XXI. 530 Repeal the Union! Restore the Heptarchy as soon! the measure itself is simply impossible.
1834 Peel Speech House of Commons 25 Apr. 3rd Ser. XXIII. 69.
1851 M. Kelly tr. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus III. 301 In England there was a heptarchy, but in Ireland a pentarchy.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 12 Australia is now only waiting for an Enabling Bill in order to form a Federal Council, the inevitable germ of an Australian heptarchy.
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