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comitial, a.|kəˈmɪʃ(ɪ)əl|
[ad. L. comitiāl-is pertaining to the comitia.]
A. adj.
1. Roman Antiq. Of or pertaining to the comitia (q.v.). comitial day (L. dies comitialis): a day on which the comitia could be held.
1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 31 Quhen ony officis or digniteis ar desirit on the commiciall dayis. 1618Bolton Florus iii. xiv. 219 When upon a comitiall day he laboured to have his authority continued for a longer time. a1832J. Taylor Poems & Transl. (1839) 183 Lawful, Unlawful, and Comitial Days. 1880Muirhead tr. Instit. Gaius ii. §5 By a comitial enactment [lege] or a senatus consult.
b. comitial sickness, comitial fit, comitial evil, etc.: the ‘falling sickness’ or epilepsy. [L. morbus comitialis, so called because its occurrence during the comitia was considered ominous and broke up the meeting.]
1562W. Bullein Bk. Simples 80 b, Castor is good to helpe the Comitiall or fallyng sicknesse. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Furies Wks. (1605–7) i. 346 And Megrim growes to the Comitiall-Ill. 1627H. Burton Baiting Pope's Bull 43 His epilepsian or comitial fit. 1660Howell Parley of Beasts ii. 26 The epilepsy or comitiall sicknesse.
†2. transf. Of or pertaining to a Diet or other modern political assembly. Obs.
1603Bp. Barlow Summe of Confer. at Hampton Crt. To Rdr., An expectation of this late Comitial Conference, much threatned before and triumphed in by many. c1645Howell Lett. (1655) I. 244 That Imperiall or Comitial Ban, pronounc'd in the Diet at Ratisbon. 1791State Papers in Ann. Reg. 184* [Scheme of a Constitution for Poland.] There shall be one supreme general tribunal..called a comitial tribunal. 1795Ibid. 236 The constitutional regard which his Imperial Majesty has always paid to that comitial decree.
3. Of or pertaining to the Academic comitia.
1714Ayliffe Univ. Oxf. (1723) II. iii. i. 132 Then the Comitial Exercises beginning, the Senior Proctor mounts the Pew on the West Side of the [Sheldonian] Theatre, and the Junior Proctor the Pew opposite to him to on the East side..At these Comitial Disputations the same method is used..as at Vespers.
†4. Applied to certain general assemblies or synods of the presbyterians in the 16th c. held ‘at London at terms and parliament times, in Oxford at the act, in Cambridge at the times of commencement’. Articles agst. Cartwright xxvi. in Fuller Ch. Hist. V. ix. 150.
1593Bancroft Dang. Positions iii. ii, Another meeting was also appointed to be helde, that year at the Commencement at Cambridge. Ibid. iii, The Brethren are to be requested, to ordaine a distribution of all Churches according to these rules..that are set downe in the Sinodicall Discipline, touching Classicall, Prouinciall, Comitiall or of Commencements, and assemblies for the whole kingdome. The Classes are to be required to kepe acts of memorable matters: which they shall see deliuered to the Comitiall assembly that from thence they may be broght by the prouincial assembly. 1656Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. v, Their Comitial assemblies, kept in the Universities at the Commencements..were conveniently chosen as safely shadowed under a confluence of people. 1754Neal Hist. Puritans I. vi. 232.
†B. n. pl. = comitia 1. Obs.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 30 Get ye therfore to the mounte Auentine..and there yee shall create your tribunes: the chiefe bishop shall be present to kepe the comitialles. |