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Demarch

Demarch \De*march"\, n. [F. d['e]marche. See March, n.] March; walk; gait. [Obs.]

Demarch

Demarch \De*march\ (d[=e]"m[aum]rk), n. [Gr. dh`marchos; dh^mos people + 'a`rchein to rule.] A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

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demarch

Etymology 1 n. The chief magistrate of a deme. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) march; walk; gait

Usage examples of "demarch".

She had been demarch for twenty years, her five brand-scars spread in a half-circle across her upper chest like a mayors collar of office.

And no one questioned that the demarch would obey the vote, because they always had.

Because the people would trust only the demarch with such power, it fell to us to command.

I fear what every demarch has feared since the first bathed in the Lake has happened: you no longer trust me, because of my position.

That he had never written a will was no matter, since being demarch he had nothing to bequeath.

I would never see my Ascendent become demarch or even warrior, unless I married within the year.

Ascendant or demarch is greatly gifted or has some uncommon ability, he must marry and produce an heir before going into battle, to pass it down.

When I became demarch and First General First, by custom I would visit a different campfire every time, and deny no Yeoli who wanted me, to bind the army as one.

If I ever became demarch, it seemed, it would be by my people paying ransom.

When there is peace, and I am free and demarch, I thought, I will find my children here, and buy, shame, or carve them free.

There are houses that hold fifty in Tardengk, owned by one, clothes that we would put only on a demarch at a festival being worn by ordinary citizens every day, jewelry I would not have dreamed possible.

Kiss is a gate, the demarch of old wrote, which once having opened and seen through one can never turn back from.

There are needs permitted to a youthful Ascendant or a warrior in the field that a demarch, especially married, is expected to have mastered, for all his body might tell him that was only yesterday.

I was still dressed like a demarch on a state visit, in silk satin and ivory filigree, demarchic signet and the collar with the steel circles.

As demarch, as if I were ever worthy while I played at wearing the signet.