单词 | tetrarchical |
释义 | tetrarchicaladj. Now rare. = tetrarchic adj.; also †of a country: Ruled by tetrarchs; divided into tetrarchies (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by specific number of rulers > [adjective] > relating to government by four tetrarchical1638 tetrarchic1818 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by specific number of rulers > [adjective] > relating to government by four > governed by four tetrarchical1638 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 21 The whole Ile is Tetrarchicall, 4 severall Kings swaying their Ebony Scepters in each Toparchy. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. x. 212 The Tetrarchicall or generall banners, of Judah, Ruben, Ephraim and Dan. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) IV. 527 The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical, or ethnarchical authority, for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1638 |
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