triarchyn.
/ˈtrʌɪəki/ 1. The government or jurisdiction of a triarch; one of three divisions of a country ruled by triarchs.
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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 > of tetrarch or triarch
tetrarchy?a1475
triarchy1601
tetradarchy1839
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. xviii. 101 There lye betweene and about these citties, certaine Royalties called Triarchies, containing every one of them as much as an whole countrey.
2. Government by three rulers or powers jointly; three persons associated in government, a triumvirate. Cf. tetrarchy n. 2.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by specific number of rulers > [noun] > by three
tritarchy1647
triarchy1656
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > joint ruler > [noun] > one of specific number of > set of specific number of
triumvirate1584
triumvirship1597
triumviry1598
decemvir1600
pentarchy1607
triumvir1619
decarchya1638
decemvirate1651
tetrarchy1716
decadarchy1849
triarchy1859
triarchate1881
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Triarchie (triarchia), a government, where three are in like authority.
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
1859 Morning Star 28 Apr. 4/3 The Emperor of the French..proposed to the Queen that the pentarchy of the five Powers should be put an end to, and a triarchy of France, England, and Russia, be established in its stead.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 20 Oct. 305/3 He proposed to establish a sort of triarchy, which was to consist of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia..and a sovereign to be chosen periodically by and from the heads of the smaller principalities.
3. A group of three districts or divisions of a country each under its own ruler.
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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
1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 143 [The rational soul] dividing her Empire into a Triarchy,..governs by three Viceroys, the three Faculties.
1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. ii. x. 355 The island, though nominally under an hexarchy, was fast verging into a triarchy.
1888 Voice (N.Y.) 27 Dec. Three ambitious little kingdoms..Greece, Servia and Bulgaria. This triarchy cannot long endure; one must take the lead, with the prospect of absorbing the others.
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