Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a septemvir; government or authority vested in seven persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.
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- noun The
office ofseptemvir ; agovernment by septemvirs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the month of May seven persons were appointed to examine, my papers, and among the inquisitorial septemvirate were two men well known and filling high situations.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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"These are indeed very weighty counter-charges: and you might have declared them all before the Court, to which you were summoned: you might have appealed even to the septemvirate, but as you did not appear then, you must bear the consequences of your obstinacy."
Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864
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During the month of May seven persons were appointed to examine, my papers, and among the inquisitorial septemvirate were two men well known and filling high situations.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic.
Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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During the month of May seven persons were appointed to examine, my papers, and among the inquisitorial septemvirate were two men well known and filling high situations.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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Did you not also desert him in the matter of the septemvirate? [
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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