单词 | tribunitian |
释义 | tribunitiantribunicianadj. a. Of, belonging, or pertaining to a Roman tribune, or the office of tribune. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [adjective] > tribune tribunitian1533 tribunal1577 tribunitial1598 tribunary1612 tribunian1693 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. iv. 255 Þis auctorite tribuniciane was devisit to þe vniuersall proffitt and supporte of þe ciete. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales vi. iv. 126 By a Tribunitian law it was brought vnto halfe one in the hundred; and in the end vsury was wholy forbidden. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 342 The Tribunitian Viatores had places. 1842 T. De Quincey Pagan Oracles in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 287/2 The very same reason which had obliged Augustus not to suppress..the tribunitian office. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lx. 273 He would exercise his ancient tribunician privilege, and veto a decree of condemnation. b. transferred and figurative. Having the power of veto like the Roman tribunes; popularly appointed; demagogic; factious. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective] seditious1455 factious1533 factiosea1573 tribunitious1600 incendiary1614 tumultuousa1617 tribunitian1637 seditionary1898 fomentary2013 society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > vetoing > having power of veto negative1648 negativing1776 tribunitian1783 society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > popularly appointed tribunitian1846 1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 80 Mass. Prinne is of a factious Tribunitian spirit. 1783 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 19/2 He must..exercise a tribunitian power of..preventing the exhibition of what the nominal physician prescribes. 1846 W. S. Landor To J. Forster in Wks. II. 675 Steadfast Cromwell's tribunitian throne. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. i. 111 The tribunitian fury of ecclesiastical demagogues. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/2 The association would be..a great associated tribune of the people, with more than tribunitian powers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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