Also 7 -at. [f. TETRARCH sb.1 + -ATE1: cf. exarchate and F. tetrarchat.] The office or position of a tetrarch.
1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., I. 102. Your tetrarchate would be a gain for you to lose it.
1709. Stanhope, Paraphr., IV. 90. Agrippa, Herod’s Successor in the Tetrarchate of Galilee.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., i. § 5. 41. It was Herod’s feverish desire to emulate the title of King … that cost him his tetrarchate.
