interrex
a person holding supreme authority in a state during an interregnum.
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The patricians, now that the republic was without any curule magistrate, assembled together and elected an interrex.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Titus LiviusFinally, the people elected to every magistracy with the exception of the occasional offices of Dictator and interrex.
The interrex who presided over the comitia proclaimed, without opposition, Crassus and Pompey consuls.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 2 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.interrex, in′tėr-reks, n. one who rules during an interregnum: a regent.
I shall advise all defendants in civil suits to ask each interrex for two adjournments for obtaining legal assistance.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 | Marcus Tullius Cicero
British Dictionary definitions for interrex
/ (ˌɪntəˈrɛks) /
a person who governs during an interregnum; provisional ruler
Origin of interrex
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