Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as tribunicial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune.

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  • adjective Pertaining to a Roman tribune.

Etymologies

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From Latin tribunicius + an.

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Examples

  • Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, holder of tribunician power, consul for the third time, pontifex maximns.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, holder of tribunician power, consul for the third time, pontifex maximns.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Pompey was planning to seek the consulship on the platform of a full restoration of tribunician power.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Pompey was planning to seek the consulship on the platform of a full restoration of tribunician power.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Clodius, perceiving that Cicero would thus escape his tribunician authority, professed to be inclinable to a reconciliation, laid the greatest fault upon Terentia, made always a favorable mention of him, and addressed him with kind expressions, as one who felt no hatred or ill-will, but who merely wished to urge his complaints in

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He and all subsequent emperors would number their reigns by tribunician years.

    c. Augustus and the Principate 2001

  • He also received both proconsular imperium and tribunician power.

    e. The High Empire 2001

  • Augustus used his tribunician power to pass the lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus, which regulated marriages between the various social orders, and the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis (18?), which made adultery a crime.

    c. Augustus and the Principate 2001

  • And I can foresee a time when all of us might need tribunician laws.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • But because he was a Roman and an officer with junior tribunician status-and was the owner of many decorations for valor-the young man was offered two alternatives.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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