Definition of Pentarch

1. one of five joint rulers [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentarch

pentaploidies
pentaploids
pentaploidy
pentapodies
pentapody
pentaprism
pentaprismo-
pentaprisms
pentaptote
pentaptotes
pentaptych
pentaptychs
pentaquark
pentaquarks
pentaquine
pentarch (current term)
pentarchies
pentarchs
pentarchy
pentasaccharide
pentasaccharides
pentasil
pentasiloxane
pentasiloxanes
pentastich
pentastichous
pentastichs
pentastomiasis
pentastomid

Literary usage of Pentarch

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

1. Eochaid the Heremhon; Or, The Romance of the Lia Phail by Alfred Morris (1900)
"Pressing on dose behind the flying outposts, the troops of the pentarch were upon the disorganised rabble before anyone had time even to think of means of ..."

2. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"... of the kings that preceded him; and that each pentarch king should also maintain an Ollamh, and each lord of a canton and chief of a district likewise. ..."

3. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"The general anatomy of the root is of the usual type ; the vascular cylinder is tetrarch, pentarch or ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"... there was no dominion the rule over which did not appertain to some certain family from which the monarch, pentarch, or subordinate prince was chosen, ..."

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