Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
irenarch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A justice of the peace; irenarch.
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- noun Alternative form of
irenarch .
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Occasionally the imperial government looked into the municipal book-keeping and even controlled the municipal decrees; more frequently it exercised a certain surveillance over the nomination of the chief of police (eirenarch).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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