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phalanx
(historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
“The hierarchy will extend from the unarch, or head of a phalange, to the omniarch, or head of the universe.”
“The goal is to give anyone with the inkling a chance to pick up a pen or pencil and dip a phalange into a comic collaboration.”
“According to this interpretation it is the first and only phalange in the first digit.”
phalanstery
An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
(historical) Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.