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tribunitian, -ician, a.|trɪbjuːˈnɪʃən|
[f. as prec. + -an. Cf. F. tribunicien (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Of, belonging, or pertaining to a Roman tribune, or the office of tribune.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. iv. (S.T.S.) I. 255 Þis auctorite tribuniciane was devisit to þe vniuersall proffitt and supporte of þe ciete. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. vi. iv. (1622) 126 By a Tribunitian law it was brought vnto halfe one in the hundred; and in the end Vsury was wholly forbidden. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 342 The Tribunitian Viatores had places. 1842De Quincey Pagan Oracles Wks. 1858 VIII. 180 The very same reason which had obliged Augustus not to suppress..the tribunitian office. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lx, He would exercise his ancient tribunician privilege, and veto a decree of condemnation.
b. transf. and fig. Having the power of veto like the Roman tribunes; popularly appointed; demagogic; factious.
1637Heylin Answ. to Burton 80 Mass. Prinne is of a factious Tribunitian spirit. 1783Town & Country Mag. 19 He must..exercise a tribunitian power of..preventing the exhibition of what the nominal physician prescribes. 1846Landor To J. Forster Wks. II. 675 Steadfast Cromwell's tribunitian throne. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. vii. i. (1864) IV. 21 The tribunitian fury of ecclesiastical demagogues. 1888Pall Mall G. 20 Jan. 2/2 The association would be..a great associated tribune of the people, with more than tribunitian powers. |