Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decemvirate

Decemvirate , noun

[Latin decemviratus.]

1.

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

2.

A body of ten men in authority.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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