tetrarchical

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Adjective

tetrarchical (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.
   • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

     The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical , or ethnarchical authority , for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them

References

• “tetrarchical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.