patriciate

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The patriciate succeeded the imperial, being the seventh head, and only of short duration, about fifty years.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

The seventh power was the patriciate, which continued about fifty years.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

Her name had been bandied about by traitors, her person been bought and sold as the price of the blackest sacrilege that had ever disgraced the patriciate of Rome.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

We have still to speak of the directly political functions of the rich, or, as M. Comte terms them, the patriciate.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart

Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in the year eight hundred; and so the patriciate terminated.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David