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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