Definition of Ephorate

1. the office of ephor [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephorate

ephemeron
ephemerons
ephemeropteran
ephemerous
ephemerovirus
ephesite
ephialtes
ephippia
ephippial
ephippium
ephod
ephods
ephor
ephoral
ephoralty
ephorate (current term)
ephorates
ephori
ephors
ephraim
ephrin
ephrins
ephus
ephyra
ephyrae
epi
epi-
epi-coprostanol
epi-coprosterol
epialexine

Literary usage of Ephorate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1902)
"There will be no senate organized in a narrow oligarchical way, no ephorate with over-great powers. On minor contrasts we need not dwell. ..."

2. The Antiquities of Greece by George Friedrich Schömann (1880)
"Subsequent to the time of Theopompus we iind only two obscure allusions to any regulation affecting the ephorate. The first is that a certain ..."

3. Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford (1922)
"68). whose ephorate falls in the year 566-5 according to Eusebius, ; history; with the increase in severity of discipline the civilization of ..."

4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"If this committee of professors, or ephorate over the students, ... Such an ephorate over the theological students at Erlangen was established in 1833. ..."

5. Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece by Siriol Davies, Jack L Davis (2007)
"For the Corinthia I thank, first, the officials of the 4th (now 37th) ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, especially Panayiota ..."

6. German Universities: Contributions to the History and Improvement of the by Karl von Raumer (1859)
"If this committee of professors, or ephorate over the students, ... Such an ephorate over the theological students at Erlangen was established in 1833. ..."

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