quatrumvirate

English

Etymology

From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.

Noun

quatrumvirate (plural quatrumvirates)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
   • 1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:

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

References

• "†quatrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• quartumvirate