Re: lexicon
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2003, 14:50 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> _gravun_, which does not appear to have a good English counterpart - it means
> a state consisting of a number of conquered regions ruled from a central core.
That sounds more like "empire" to me. An empire need not be monarchical:
the Delian League was an Athenian empire, though Athens had no kings.
Then there is the American empire....
> *By which I mean a state run by the military. I dunno if this word is to be
> found in any English lexicon.
"Military dictatorship" would be normal. Of course, in aristocracies, the
feudal rulers are generally so because they are military leaders also.
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