decemvirates

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A form of decemvirate — A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of decemvirate
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