单词 | tribunate |
释义 | tribunaten. 1. The office of tribune; tribuneship; government by tribunes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [noun] > tribune > office of tribuneship1541 tribunate1546 tribunalship1654 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. iii. 38 b During that office [dictatorship] all other magistrates were abrogated except the Tribunate or Prouostship of the commons. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 877 The Tribunate was an empeachment, inhibition, and restraint of a magistracie, rather than a magistracie it selfe. 1746 W. Melmoth tr. Pliny Lett. (1748) II. vii. xxii. 410 I so strongly pressed you to confer the Tribunate upon my friend. 1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. ii. 35 The great Roman Revolution which began with the tribunate of Gracchus and ended with the battle of Actium. 2. French History. A representative body of legislators established under the constitution of the year 8 of the Revolutionary calendar (1800–1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in France States General1575 national assembly1790 National Convention1792 National Convention1792 Directoire1795 directory1796 tribunate1802 1804 Ann. Rev. 2 85/2 Our author was present at a sitting of the tribunat, in the Palais Royal.] 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon IV. v. 153 A Tribunate of one hundred deputies. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 136 Both in the Tribunate and in the Legislative Body his measure encountered strenuous resistance. 1905 Edinb. Rev. July 90 Benjamin Constant and nineteen others were turned out of the Tribunate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1546 |
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