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Webster 1913 Edition
Heptarchy
Hep′tarch-y
,Noun.
[
Hepta-
+ -archy
: cf. F. heptarchie
.] A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Heptarchy
HEP'TARCHY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
heptarchy
heptarchy
English
Noun
heptarchy (plural heptarchies)
- government by seven people
- A state governed by seven people, or an association of seven states (as in Anglo-Saxon Britain)