tribunal, tribunall

[Lat.] [TRIBUNE.) 1. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his a ociates sit for administering justice. "This, godde , this to his remembrance call, Embrace his knees, at his tribunal fall." Pope: Homer's Iliad, i. 531. IMG:content-1416.png:[blocks in formation] Censures can be imposed, according to the ordinary law, by ecclesiastics po e ing jurisdiction in the external courts ( forum externum , as distinct from the internal court, or tribunal of confe ion)."- Addis & Arnold : Cath . Dict . , p. 135.