decemvirate

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Etymology

From Latin decemvirātus, from decemvirī (“decemvirs”) +‎ -ātus (“-ate”).

Noun

decemvirate (plural decemvirates)

  1. A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.

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References
  • "decemvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • decemvirate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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