tetrarchical
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek
Adjective
tetrarchical (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
- The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical , or ethnarchical authority , for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
References
- tetrarchical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913