Decemvirate
[di'semvirit]
Definition
(n.) The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
(n.) A body of ten men in authority.
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Examples
- A second decemvirate, appointed in succession to the first, attempted a sort of aristocratic counter-revolution under Appius Claudius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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