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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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pl. E.

Quindecemvirs

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, L.

Quindecemviri

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[L., from

quindecim

fifteen +

vir

a man.]

(Rom. Antiq.)

One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

Noun.

[L. 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.

Quindecemvir ‎(plural Quindecemvirs or Quindecemviri)

(Roman history) One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

Quindecemvir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913