Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of seven men joined in any office or commission: as, the septemviri epulones, one of the four chief religious corporations of ancient Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Hist.) One of a board of seven men associated in some office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A member of a
septemvirate ; one ofseven people associated in someoffice .
Etymologies
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Latin septemviri, plural; septem ("seven") + viri ("men").
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Examples
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Do we not know then, O Pansa, over what places the authority of Lenti Caesennius, as a septemvir, prevails at present?
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Paul Hainzel, the one a septemvir, and the other the consul or burgomaster.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824
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