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doge [doje] Noun (formerly) the chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa [Latin dux leader]
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) is prostrate before the Pope, there are three men in the foreground who are over thirty feet high, if one may judge by the size of a kneeling little boy in the center of the foreground; and according to the same scale, the Pope is seven feet high and the Doge is a shriveled dwarf of four feet. I am a Venetian noble, and I might have been a doge like any one else. There were one thousand five hundred Patricians; from these, three hundred Senators were chosen; from the Senators a Doge and a Council of Ten were selected, and by secret ballot the Ten chose from their own number a Council of Three. |
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j)
cere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]
doge - formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa