quatrumvirate

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A form of quattuorvirate — A group of four people, especially a council of four men sharing office or rule.

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Meanings

nounquatrumvirate (plural quatrumvirates)

plural quatrumvirates

  1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.

    For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe.

    1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire

Origin

From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.

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