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exarchate

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ex⋅ar⋅chate

  [ek-sahr-keyt, -kit, ek-sahr-keyt]
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–noun
the office, jurisdiction, or province of an exarch.
Also, ex⋅ar⋅chy  [ek-sahr-kee] .

Origin:
1555–65; < ML exarchātus domain of an exarch. See exarch 1 , -ate 3
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ex·arch 1   (ěk'särk')   
n.  

  1. A bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church ranking immediately below a patriarch.

  2. The ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.


[Late Latin exarchus, an overseer, from Greek exarkhos, from exarkhein, to lead : ex-, ex- + arkhein, to rule.]
ex·arch'al adj., ex'ar'chate (ěk'sär'kāt), ex'ar'chy (-kē) n.
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