Usually means: Group of ten ruling officials.
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  1. decemvirate: Merriam-Webster
  2. decemvirate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decemvirate: Wordnik
  4. decemvirate: Wiktionary
  5. decemvirate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. decemvirate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Decemvirate, decemvirate: Dictionary.com
  8. Decemvirate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Decemvirate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. decemvirate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Decemvirate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. decemvirate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. decemvirate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. decemvirate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decemvirate)

noun:  A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.

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