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exarch
1[ ek-sahrk ]
noun
- Eastern Church.
- a patriarch's deputy.
- a title originally applied to a patriarch but later applied only to a bishop ranking below a patriarch and above a metropolitan.
- the ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.
exarch
2[ ek-sahrk ]
adjective
- (of a primary xylem or root) developing from the center; having the youngest cells closest to the core.
exarch
1/ ˈɛksɑːk /
noun
- the head of certain autonomous Orthodox Christian Churches, such as that of Bulgaria and Cyprus
- any of certain Eastern Orthodox bishops, lower in rank than a patriarch but higher than a metropolitan
- the governor of a province in the Byzantine Empire
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Derived Forms
- exˈarchal, adjective
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Other Words From
- ex·archal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of exarch1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The officials of the empire, a distant exarch at Ravenna, a feeble prtor at Rome, had no power either to protect or to rescue.
A fleet, fitted out by him in support of the exarch, was lost in a storm.
They were ignorant of their new exarch; and Longinus was himself ignorant of the state of the army and the province.
Many of the recently converted uniates, on the other hand, offered their allegiance to the exarch.
Caesarea was an important diocese, and its bishop was, ex officio, exarch of the great diocese of Pontus.
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