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单词 quingentumvirate
释义

quingentumviraten.

Forms: 1600s quingentumvirat.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin quingentī , triumvirate n.
Etymology: < classical Latin quingentī five hundred (see quingentenary adj.) + -umvirate (in triumvirate n., etc.). N.E.D. (1902) gives the stress as quingen'tumvirate.
Obsolete. rare.
A state governed by a group of five hundred men.
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1661 J. Howell True Informer in Historicall Disc. 29 England is turned hereby from a Monarchy to a Democracy, to a perpetual kind of Quingentumvirat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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