(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:17:00

Vi`gin*tiv"i*rate (?), n. [L. vigintiviratus, fr. vigintiviri; viginti twenty + vir a man.]

The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.

[R.]

 

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