a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to a trierarch or trierarchs. So Trierarchic, -ical adjs. [Gr. τριηραρχικός].
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristophanes, II. 127. The city had been full of martial tumult and trierarchal clamour.
1853. Grote, Greece, II. lxxxvii. XI. 381. Demosthenes belonged to a trierarchic family.
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Gr., I. II. xii. 502. The fitting out of war-ships, called the trierarchic liturgy.
1891. Athenæum, 25 July, 128/1. The law of Periander in 357 B.C. … placing 1,200 citizens in the trierarchical symmories.
