Pŏl'y-chœr'a-ny, n.

(-kēr/a-ný), n. [Gr. πολυκοίρανίη, the rule of many, from πολυκοίρανος, wide-ruling, from πολύς, many, much, and κοίρανος, ruler.] A government by many chiefs, princes, or rulers. [Obs. and rare.]

Otherwise there would not be... one prince or monarch over the whole: but the world would be a polychœrany, or aristocracy of gods, concluded to be an ill government. Cudworth.