tetrarchate
(ˈtɛtrəkeɪt)
Also 7 -at.
[f. tetrarch n.1 + -ate1: cf. exarchate and F. tetrarchat.]
The office or position of a tetrarch.
| 1651 C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 102 Your tetrarchate would be a gain for you to lose it. 1709 Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 90 Agrippa, Herod's Successor in the Tetrarchate of Galilee. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. i. §5. 41 It was Herod's feverish desire to emulate the title of King..that cost him his tetrarchate. |