Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Government by twelve chiefs or kings.
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- noun uncountable
government by a group oftwelve people - noun countable such a group of twelve people
Etymologies
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Formed by regular alteration of dodecarch on the pattern of decarchy and other -archy terms (equivalent to the Ancient Greek -άρχης (-arkhēs) → -αρχία (-arkhia) rule); compare the Modern Greek δωδεκαρχία (dōdekarchía, "unit of twelve men in the Greek army during 1828–9"); equivalent to dodec- + -archy.
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Examples
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Gesenius refers it to Psammetichus, who had brought into Egypt Greek and other foreign mercenaries to subdue the other eleven princes of the dodecarchy.
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A third native dynasty was at Sais, in the west of Lower Egypt; to this at a later period belonged Psammetichus, the first who admitted Greeks into Egypt and its armies; he was one of the dodecarchy, a number of petty kings between whom Egypt was divided, and by aid of foreign auxiliaries overcame the rest, 670 B.C.
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