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An aerarius; the lowest class of citizen in Ancient Rome.
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Alternative form of agoranomos [(historical) An elected overseer of the marketplace in the cities of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire.]
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(historical) An elected overseer of the marketplace in the cities of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire.
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The title of the governor or chief magistrate of the Jews in Alexandria under the Ptolemies and Roman emperors.
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(historical, Scotland) A member of a faction of the Scottish Presbyterian Church that refused to take the burgess oath in 1747; since reunited.
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A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
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A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
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A senior chaplain in a French royal court
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A chief flamen or priest.
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(historical) The head of a synagogue.
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A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
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Alternative form of Asiarch [(historical) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.]
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(UK, Oxford University) A member of a hall rather than a college.
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(Ancient Rome, historical) An emperor who seized power by virtue of his command of the army.
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(obsolete, rare) A royalist; a partisan of a king.
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A chiliarch; the commander or chief of a thousand men.
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(historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
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(historical) A county, usually a marchland, whose ruler was granted near-royal authority within its area while still owing allegiance to the realm's king or emperor.
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of, or resembling a czar; tsarish
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Either of the two rulers in a diarchy.
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(Christianity, historical) A Dorcas society (ladies' church association making clothes for the poor)
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Obsolete spelling of douzeper [(historical fiction) One of the legendary "twelve peers" or renowned warriors of Charlemagne, the Emperor of the Romans from 800 to 814.]
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(historical) A member of the Ancient Roman army who received double the basic pay.
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One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
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(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.
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Alternative form of Electorate of the Palatinate [(geography, historical) The County Palatinate of the Rhine, during the period when its count palatinate was an elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1356–1803).]
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Alternative form of emperor (emperor penguin) [The male monarch or ruler of an empire.]
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The form of government in Japan prior to WWII, with the emperor as head of state.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) The governor or prefect of a province.
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(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
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(historical) The governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.
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The leader of a nation or of an ethnic group
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The leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile.
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(historical) A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
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Alternative form of God Emperor [A god-king; a sovereign worshiped as a god.]
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Alternative form of HH [His Holiness.]
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(historical) A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities they subjugated.
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Initialism of His Eminence. [(Roman Catholicism) A honorific style for a cardinal]
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A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
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(historical) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.
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Alternative form of hegumen [(Christianity) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.]
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(formal, usually italicized) The reigning emperor; male equivalent of Imperatrix
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(historical) An official in Ancient Rome who acted as single head of state during the interregnum between two consulates.
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(historical) An officer in Ancient Greece having functions corresponding to those of a Justice of the Peace.
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(historical) A local or provincial governor in the late Byzantine Empire.
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Alternative letter-case form of Klandidate [(US, derogatory) A political candidate for elected office who is really or allegedly connected with or similar in views to the Ku Klux Klan.]
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rare spelling of kleroterion. [(Ancient Greek historical, specifically Athenian democracy) A device used in sortition.]
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(historical) Any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
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(historical politics) The governor of a myriarchy in Mongolian Tibet.
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The chief administrator of a modern Greek nomarchy.
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(historical) The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.
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(historical) An arrangement between the Holy See and the kingdom (and later republic) of Portugal, by which the Vatican delegated to the kings of Portugal the administration of the local churches.
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(historical) The ruler of a phyle in Ancient Greece.
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Alternative form of phylarch [(historical) The ruler of a phyle in Ancient Greece.]
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(historical) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
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(historical, Roman antiquity) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy
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An imperial official in Ancient Rome who was charged with the supervision of the grain supply to the city of Rome.
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(historical) The throne name of a pharaoh, the fourth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title nswt-bjtj.
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Alternative spelling of praetorian [(Ancient Rome) A praetor.]
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(historical) The early period of the Roman Empire, during which some characteristics of the government of the Roman Republic were retained; the reign of any particular emperor during said period.
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In ancient Rome, an ex-consul or ex-praetor whose imperium (the power to command an army) was extended at the end of his annual term of office or later.
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A military governor in the Byzantine empire
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(Ancient Greece, historical) A citizen of a state appointed by another state to host its ambassadors and to represent and protect its interests there.
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Of or relating to the city of Regina, Canada.
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(historical) The imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.
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(historical) The period of Ancient Rome where its government operated as a republic.
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(historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
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(historical) A governor of a Persian province.
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(historical) A judge: an ad hoc leader in ancient Israel.
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(Freemasonry) A member of the fraternal Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
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Alternative form of starets [An elder of a monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church who functions as an adviser and teacher.]
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(historical) The chief priest in the Roman province of Syria.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
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Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.
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An officer in charge of a fourth part of a phalanx in Ancient Greece.
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(figuratively) A person with great power; an autocrat.
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of, relating to, or ruled by a tsar
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Of, relating to, or being a tsar; czaric.
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Of or resembling a tsar; czarish.
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A monarch of the British royal family during the sixteenth century. Specifically, King Henry VII and Henry VIII or one of his three children who ascended the throne.
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(rare) Relating to an usher.
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Of or pertaining to the vanguard.
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Alternative form of vardapet [(Christianity) A highly educated archimandrite in the Armenian Apostolic Church tradition who holds a Doctorate in Theology.]
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Alternative form of vardapet [(Christianity) A highly educated archimandrite in the Armenian Apostolic Church tradition who holds a Doctorate in Theology.]
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(historiography) The period during which the Republic of Venice held domains in parts of Greece.
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A graduate of the École nationale d'administration.
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