单词 | comitial |
释义 | comitialadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Roman History. Of or pertaining to the comitia (comitia n. 1). comitial day (Latin dies comitialis): a day on which the comitia could be held. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [adjective] > of or relating to ancient Roman assembly comitial1533 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 31 Quhen ony officis or digniteis ar desirit on the commiciall dayis. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xiv. 329 When vpon a comitiall day hee laboured to haue his authoritie continued for a longer time. a1832 J. Taylor Poems & Transl. (1839) 183 Lawful, Unlawful, and Comitial Days. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 76 By a comitial enactment [ L. lege] or a senatusconsult. b. comitial sickness, comitial fit, comitial evil, etc.: the ‘falling sickness’ or epilepsy. [Latin morbus comitialis, so called because its occurrence during the comitia was considered ominous and broke up the meeting.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy brothfallc1175 foul evila1398 the falling evila1400 falling gouta1400 land-evilc1440 falling sickness1485 epilency1495 falling-ill1561 comitial fit1562 St John's disease1574 epilepsy1578 falling disease1580 St John's evil1605 epilepse1804 sacred malady- 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 80v, in Bulwarke of Defence Castor is good to helpe the Comitiall or fallyng sicknesse. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 346 And Megrim growes to the Comitial-Ill. 1627 H. Burton Baiting Popes Bull 43 His epilepsian or comitial fit. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια ii. 26 The epilepsy or comitiall sicknesse. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [adjective] parliamental1570 comitial1604 parliamentary1626 senatical1651 senatorial1742 parliamentarian1882 1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court To Rdr. An expectation of this late Comitial Conference, much threatned before and triumphed in by many. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. iii. 9 That Imperiall or Comitial Ban, pronounc'd in the Diet at Ratisbon. 1791 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 184* [Scheme of a Constitution for Poland.] There shall be one supreme general tribunal..called a comitial tribunal. 1795 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 236 The constitutional regard which his Imperial Majesty has always paid to that comitial decree. 3. Of or pertaining to the Academic comitia. ΚΠ 1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [adjective] > general assembly comitial1593 1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions iii. ii. 71 Another meeting was also appointed to be held, that yeare, at the Commencement in Camebridge. 1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions iii. iii. 74 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 keepe acts of memorable matters: which they shall see deliuered to the Comitiall assembly that from thence they may be brought by the prouinciall assembly. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. v Their Comitial assemblies, kept in the Universities at the Commencements..were conveniently chosen as safely shadowed under a confluence of people. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. vi. 346 Rules set down in the Synodical Discipline, touching Classical, Provincial, Comitial, and Assemblies for the whole Kingdom. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > in ancient Rome comices1533 comitial1566 county1601 comitia1740 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. v. f. 18v Gette ye therefore to the mounte Auentine..and there ye shall create your Tribunes. The chief bishoppe shall be presente, to kepe the Comitialles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1533 |
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