The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triumvir \Tri*um"vir\, n.; pl. L. Triumviri, E. Triumvirs. [L., fr. res, gen. trium, three + vir a man. See Three, and Virile.] (Rom. Antiq.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.
Note: In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius C[ae]sar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last.
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n. (plural of triumvir English)
Usage examples of "triumvirs".
On the side of the triumvirs nobody knows twinges of conscience, neither Barras, a condottiere open to the highest bidder, and who understands the value of blows, nor Reubell, a sort of bull, who, becoming excited, sees red, nor Merlin de Douai, the terrible legist, lay inquisitor and executioner in private.
The Triumvirs proscribed eighteen of the most flourishing colonies of Italy.
Gabinius and the triumvirs without owning our tribunician inviolability.
Obviously speaking on behalf of all three of the proposed new Triumvirs, Demansk was making it clear that there would be no reprisals against Albrecht—or, by implications, his supporters.
A choice which, I might mention, has the full approval of both of my fellow Triumvirs as well as"—here, his voice grew stern: the patriarch in full glory—"my own magnificent sons.
Obviously speaking on behalf of all three of the proposed new Triumvirs, Demansk was making it clear that there would be no reprisals against Albrechtor, by implications, his supporters.
A choice which, I might mention, has the full approval of both of my fellow Triumvirs as well as"here, his voice grew stern: the patriarch in full glory"my own magnificent sons.
Aebutius Helva were the triumvirs appointed to superintend the settlement of the colony.
Ulvas, meanwhile, had entered into a conversation with a villager of substantial size and presence who, from the looks of things, was an important minister in the government of the triumvirs, though it was not clad in any of the symbols of authority itself.