[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office, or tenure of office, of an archon.

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1699.  Bentley, Phal., 271. The year of Solon’s Archonship.

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1866.  Felton, Anc. & Mod. Greece, II. v. 80. The archonship and the higher offices of state were open only to the first class.

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