Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bundle, as of rods or fibers.
- noun plural In Roman antiquity, bundles of rods, usually of birch, with an ax bound in with them, the blade projecting, borne by lictors before the superior Roman magistrates as a badge of their power over life and limb.
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
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"[Fasces:] from the Latin word fascis, meaning" bundle, "symbolize summary power and jurisdiction … The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of white birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe (or sometimes two) amongst the rods, with the blade (s) on the side, projecting from the bundle.
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Fascism is indeed a coinage — whether by Mussolini himself, or somebody close to him — derived from the fasces, the axes bundled with rods a fascis is a bundle carried by the lictors in ancient Rome as a sign of authority.
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Think Progress » Kondrake: Rice and Hughes Convince Bush To Drop ‘Islamic Fascism’ From Speeches 2006
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Cassis, caulis, fascis, finis, etc. (containing the list of masculine nouns of the third declension ending in-is), but long involved rules of syntax also that are absolutely unintelligible except to the initiated and those who are by nature the children of light.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947
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She too fell, and in her place stood a _fascis_ of eighty-three spears, symbolising the unity of the eighty-three departments of
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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He is willing, though, to call a spade a spade -- or a fascis a fascis.
Jill Politics rikyrah 2010
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
CHE > Latest news 2010
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
CHE > Latest news 2010
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