Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ephor

Ephor , noun

[Latin ephorus, Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} to oversee; {not transcribed} + {not transcribed} to see: compare French éphore.]

(Greek Antiquities) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.