exarchy noun2 •The jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.These exarchies arose in the ninth century when the superiors of monasteries exercised pastoral care of faithful who belonged to churches dependent on the monastery. — 1992 •A vascular system in which development starts in the regions farthest from the axis and spreads inward.Fossil evidence supports neither the view that exarchy is more primitive than mesarchy, nor the view that mesarchy is more primitive than exarchy. — 1952 formsexarchies
