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heptarchy |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Heptarchy \Hep"tarch*y\, n. [Hepta- + -archy: cf F. heptarchie.] A government by seven persons; also a country under seven rulers. Note: The word is most commonly applied to England, when it was divided into seven kingdoms; as the Saxon heptachy, which consisted of Kent, the South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex), East Saxons (Essex), the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.