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heptarchy

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Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

heptarchyn. [Hepta- + -archy: cf. F. heptarchie.].
     A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.  [1913 Webster]
    " The word is most commonly applied to England, when it was divided into seven kingdoms; as, the Saxon heptachy, which consisted of Kent, the South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex), East Saxons (Essex), the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

heptarchy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a government by seven rulers. b an instance of this.
2 hist. the supposed seven kingdoms of the Angles and the Saxons in Britain in the 7th-8th c.

Derivative
heptarchic adj. heptarchical adj.
Etymology
HEPTA- after tetrarchy
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