principate

[ prin-suh-peyt ]

/ ˈprɪn səˌpeɪt /

noun

supreme power or office.

Nearby words

Origin of principate

1300–50; Middle English < Latin prīncipātus, equivalent to prīncip- (see prince) + -ātus -ate³

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Examples from the Web for principate

It was useless to demand that a man be proclaimed to the principate if that man be dead.
"Unto Caesar"|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
That decree defines the Principate to be an episcopal power of jurisdiction, which is immediate, over the whole Church.
The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI|Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies
One result of the establishment of the Principate was the consolidation of the public domain.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3|Various
Under the principate their status underwent a marked decline.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10|Various

No young women were allowed to be present at the commedia del arte in the first times of the principate at Florence.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner

British Dictionary definitions for principate

principate

/ (ˈprɪnsɪˌpeɪt) /

noun

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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