quindecemvir

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUINDEC'EMVIR, noun [Latin quinque, five, decem, ten, and vir, man.] In Roman history, one of a collection or body of fifteen magistrates, whose business was to preside over the sacrifices.
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