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Decemviral

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de·cem·vir  (d-smvr)
n. pl. de·cem·virs or de·cem·vi·ri (-v-r)
1. One of a body of ten Roman magistrates, especially a member of one of two such bodies appointed in 451 and 450 b.c. to draw up a code of laws.
2. One of an authoritative body of ten.
[Middle English, from Latin, sing. of decemvir, commission of ten men : decem, ten; see dek in Indo-European roots + vir, pl. of vir, man; see w-ro- in Indo-European roots.]
de·cemvi·ral adj.
de·cemvi·rate (-vr-t, -v-rt) n.


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