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(chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718..
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.
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.
Use polysynody when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Polysynody means (chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718..
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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.
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