decemvirate
nounEtymology From Latin decemvirātus, equivalent to decemvir + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
1
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.
- Synonyms
- government
- Related terms
- decemvir, decemviral
- Coordinate terms
- government