principate

[ prin-suh-peyt ]

/ ˈprɪn səˌpeɪt /

supreme power or office.

Origin of principate

1300–50; Middle English < Latin prīncipātus, equivalent to prīncip- (see prince) + -ātus -ate³

It was useless to demand that a man be proclaimed to the principate if that man be dead.

"Unto Caesar" |Baroness Emmuska Orczy
That decree defines the Principate to be an episcopal power of jurisdiction, which is immediate, over the whole Church.

The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI |Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies
One result of the establishment of the Principate was the consolidation of the public domain.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 |Various
Under the principate their status underwent a marked decline.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 |Various

No young women were allowed to be present at the commedia del arte in the first times of the principate at Florence.

Folkways |William Graham Sumner

principate

/ (ˈprɪnsɪˌpeɪt) /

a state ruled by a prince

a form of rule in the early Roman Empire in which some republican forms survived