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語源

From French polysynodie.

名詞

polysynody (複数形 polysynodies)

1. (chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 40:

     The abbé de Saint-Pierre, for example, saw in the principle of Polysynody a framework for refashioning the polity so as to make it markedly less authoritarian than under Louis XIV.

   • 2006, Ellen M McClure, Sunspots and the Sun King, p. 262:

     Government under polysynody is the affair of human individuals, who through their own efforts create an entity that surpasses them.

   • 2004, Janet Lloyd, translating Joseph Pérez, The Spanish Inquisition, Bookmarque 2006, p. 108:

     The Council was thus wholly dependent upon the civil authorities. It constituted one of the elements of the polysynody that was characteristic of the Hapsburgs.