tetrarchy

American  

[te-trahr-kee, tee-] / ˈtɛ trɑr ki, ˈti- /

Rarely tetrarchate

noun

1. the position, territory, or tenure of a tetrarch, especially of the ruler of the fourth part of a province or country in the ancient Roman Empire.

   Agrippa returned to Rome in a.d. 39 and secured the banishment of his uncle Antipas, whose tetrarchy of Galilee and Perea he was then granted.

2. a group of four joint rulers or chiefs, or the rule or domain of such a group.

   Many thanks to our tetrarchy of system administrators, who worked together to fix this complex network problem in record time.

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Other Word Forms

• tetrarchic
  adjective
• tetrarchical
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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tetrarchy

This shared rule between the four emperors was called a tetrarchy.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Diocletian’s hope was that the tetrarchy would end the cycle of assassinations.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

A Roman depiction of the tetrarchy dating from the period of Diocletian’s reign.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

To Herod he entrusted the tetrarchy of a certain Zenodorus and to one Mithridates, though a mere lad, Commagene, since the king of it had killed his father.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster

It is, however, quite possible that Demosthenes was thinking especially of the Thessalians of Pherae, and of the particular tetrarchy established over them: and this seems on the whole the best solution.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Arthur Wallace Pickard

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