de|cem|vi|rate

de|cem|vi|rate
de|cem|vi|rate «dih SEHM vuhr iht, -vuh rayt», noun.
1. the office or government of decemvirs: »

The decemvirate seems indeed to have exhibited the perfect model of an aristocratal royalty, vested not in one person but in several (Thomas Arnold).

2. a group or council of ten men or decemvirs.

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