The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centumvirate \Cen*tum"vi*rate\, n. [Cf. F. centumvirat.] The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.
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n. The role or office of a centumvir.
Usage examples of "centumvirate".
He told me he was afraid, that something he had formerly said the the Court of the Centumvirate, might have given me some uneasiness, when in answering me and Satrius Rufus, he had said.
Then, suspending the Cause, he said, Gentlemen of the Centumvirate, This Art of Speaking is lost.
You know you have not indicted me before the Centumvirate, and that it is now two Years, since I have enjoy'd the Use and Possession of all.
Eighty Years Old, within eleven Days after he had brought a Mother-in-Law upon her, in a Fit of Dotage, demanded her Right to her Father's Estate, before the four Courts of the Centumvirate, assembled.