tetrarchical

== English == === Etymology === Ancient Greek === Adjective === tetrarchical (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical , or ethnarchical authority , for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them === References === “tetrarchical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.