Polysynody
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Polysynody is a noun meaning (chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.
Meaning
(chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.
Example Sentences
Government under polysynody is the affair of human individuals, who through their own efforts create an entity that surpasses them.
The Council was thus wholly dependent upon the civil authorities. It constituted one of the elements of the polysynody that was characteristic of the Hapsburgs.
The abbé de Saint-Pierre, for example, saw in the principle of Polysynody a framework for refashioning the polity so as to make it markedly less authoritarian than under Louis XIV.
Word Forms
- polysynodies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include polarchy, pentarchy, decadarchy, polysynth, polysynthesism, polylogue.
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