ˈdecadarchy, deka- Gr. Hist.
[ad. Gr. δεκαδαρχία: see prec.]
A ruling body of ten. Cf. decarchy.
| 1849 Grote Greece ii. lxv. V. 547 He constituted an oligarchy of ten native citizens, chosen from among his—partisans, and called a Dekarchy, or Dekadarchy. 1852 Ibid. ii. lxxvii. X. 137 The oppressions exercised by the Spartan harmosts and the dekadarchies. |