principate
[prin-suh-peyt]
- supreme power or office.
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Origin of principate
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How, then, is it lawful to incriminate the Principate of the whole Church?
The Formation of Christendom, Volume VIThomas W. (Thomas William) Allies
It was useless to demand that a man be proclaimed to the principate if that man be dead.
"Unto Caesar"Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Under the principate their status underwent a marked decline.
One result of the establishment of the Principate was the consolidation of the public domain.
The formal recitation, recitation as a 'function', would seem to be the creation of the Principate.
principate
- a state ruled by a prince
- a form of rule in the early Roman Empire in which some republican forms survived
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