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tribunate|ˈtrɪbjuːnət|
[ad. L. tribūnāt-us, f. tribūnus tribune n.1: see -ate1. Cf. F. tribunat.]
1. The office of tribune; tribuneship; government by tribunes.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. ii. iii. 38 b, During that office [dictatorship] all other magistrates were abrogated except the Tribunate or Prouostship of the commons. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 877 The Tribunate was an empeachment, inhibition, and restraint of a magistracie, rather than a magistracie it selfe. 1746W. Melmoth tr. Pliny's Lett. vii. xxii. (1748) II. 410, I so strongly pressed you to confer the Tribunate upon my friend. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. ii. 35 The great Roman Revolution which began with the tribunate of Gracchus and ended with the battle of Actium.
2. French Hist. A representative body of legislators established under the constitution of the year 8 of the Revolutionary calendar (1800–1).
[1804Ann. Rev. II. 85/2 Our author was present at a sitting of the tribunat, in the Palais Royal.] 1827Scott Napoleon xv, A Tribunate of one hundred deputies. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 136 Both in the Tribunate and in the Legislative Body his measure encountered strenuous resistance. 1905Edin. Rev. July 90 Benjamin Constant and nineteen others were turned out of the Tribunate.
attrib.1802in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. VI. 394 [Bonaparte] planted the hedges with legislative and tribunate shrubs, and apparently gave them a good root in the earth. |