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heptarchy
CIDE DICTIONARY
heptarchy, n. [Hepta- + -archy: cf. F. heptarchie.].
A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers. [1913 Webster]
" The word is most commonly applied to England, when it was divided into seven kingdoms; as, the Saxon heptachy, which consisted of Kent, the South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex), East Saxons (Essex), the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
heptarchy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a government by seven rulers. b an instance of this.
2 hist. the supposed seven kingdoms of the Angles and the Saxons in Britain in the 7th-8th c.
1 a government by seven rulers. b an instance of this.
2 hist. the supposed seven kingdoms of the Angles and the Saxons in Britain in the 7th-8th c.
Derivative
heptarchic adj. heptarchical adj.
Etymology
HEPTA- after tetrarchy
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