octarchy noun. ['ɒktɑ:ki] L18.
[from OCTA- + -ARCHY, after HEPTARCHY.]
Government by eight rulers; an aggregate of eight districts or kingdoms, each under its own ruler; spec. the supposed eight kingdoms of the Angles and Saxons in Britain in the 7th and 8th cents. Cf. HEPTARCHY.

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