Obs. rare1. [f. L. quingentī (see prec.), after triumvirate, etc.] A government consisting of five hundred men.
1642. Howell, True Informer (1661), 29. England is turned hereby from a Monarchy to a Democracy, to a perpetual kind of Quingentumvirat.
Obs. rare1. [f. L. quingentī (see prec.), after triumvirate, etc.] A government consisting of five hundred men.
1642. Howell, True Informer (1661), 29. England is turned hereby from a Monarchy to a Democracy, to a perpetual kind of Quingentumvirat.