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By means of comitial laws and tribunician dictation, he restricted the business of the Senate.

—Ancient States and Empires

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Of or pertaining to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.
Pertaining to an order of Presbyterian assemblies. Bp. Bancroft.
Comitial ill, comitial sickness (Latin morbus comitialis), epilepsy or falling sickness: so called because, if any one was seized with it during the comitia or public assemblies in Rome, the meeting was broken up, the omen being considered bad. So Melancholy turned into Madnes; Into the Palsie, deep-affrighted Sadnes; Th' Il-habitude into the Dropsie chill, And Megrim grows to the Comitial-Ill. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. Our [asses'] liver, hoofs or bones being reduced to powder are good, as the naturalists note, against the epilepsy, or comitial-sicknesse. Howell, Parly of Beasts, p. 26.

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By means of comitial laws and tribunician dictation, he restricted the business of the Senate. — Ancient States and Empires
Then followed the comitial days, on which a meeting of the senate was impossible. — The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
Nevertheless, on these comitial days the tribunes say that they will bring forward the case of Gabinius. [ — The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
Marcellinus's resolution having been exposed for public perusal (he had read it from a written copy, and it embraced our entire case -- the prosecution was to include his violent proceedings on the site of my house, his arson, his assault on me personally, and was to take place before the elections), he put up a notice that he intended to watch the sky during all comitial days. [ — The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
He deprived them of all the comitial days; for even the Latin festival is being repeated, [476] nor were thanksgiving days wanting. [ — The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

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from Latin comitialis, from comitia: see comitia. Cf. comitalia.

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