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  • noun Plural form of dicast.

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Examples

  • At Athens the free citizens constitutionally sworn and impannelled sat as "dicasts"

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • And knowledge is not true opinion; for the Athenian dicasts have true opinion but not knowledge.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • At Athens the free citizens constitutionally sworn and impannelled sat as “dicasts” (“jurymen,” or rather as a bench of judges) to hear cases (dikai).

    Hellenica 2007

  • Any particular board of dicasts formed a “dicastery.”

    Hellenica 2007

  • Socrates used to practice speaking, he who talked as he did to the tyrants, to the dicasts, he who talked in his prison.

    The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

  • Thebans, who set up the statues of their dicasts without hands, in marble, silver, or gold, according to their merit, even after their death.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Thebans, who set up the statues of their dicasts without hands, in marble, silver, or gold, according to their merit, even after their death.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • For the power does not reside in the dicast, or senator, or ecclesiast, but in the court, and the senate, and the assembly, of which individual senators, or ecclesiasts, or dicasts, are only parts or members.

    Politics Aristotle 2002

  • At Athens, pay was instituted for the dicasts or jurors of the popular courts, which made it possible for the poorest citizens to serve.

    d. The First Peloponnesian War 2001

  • Down with the dicasts! away with them, away with them!

    The Wasps 2000

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