tribalIsm

[Eng. tribal:-ism.] The condition or state of existing or living in separate tribes; tribal feeling. tri-bal-Ist, subst. [Eng. tribal; -ist.] One of a tribe. IMG:content-1414.png:[blocks in formation] 1. One of the three bodies into which the Romans were divided. Originally the united people was divided into three tribes, which bore respectively the names: (1) Ramnes or Ramnenses, (2) Tities, Titienses, or Tatienses, (3) Luceres or Lucerenses. later Romans, was taken from Romulus, that of the The name of the first, according belief second from Tatius, and that of the third was connected with the Etruscan word Lucumo (q.v.). At the head of each tribe was a captain, called Tribu nus , and the members of the same tribe were re-organization effected by Servius Tullius, the termed, in reference to each other, Tribules . By the whole Roman people were divided into thirty tribes, twenty-six of these being Tribus Rusticæ , and local; each individual po e ed of landed property four Tribus Urbane. This arrangement was strictly being enrolled in the Rustic Tribe corresponding to the region in which his property lay, and those who were not landowners being included in one or other of the City Tribes. "Have you collected them by tribes?" Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iii. 3. 2. A division, cla , or distinct portion of a people or nation, from whatever cause the division or distinction may have arisen. "In tribes and nations to divide thy train." Pope : Homer's Iliad , ii. 431. 3. A family, race, or body of people having a par ticular descent; a family or series of generations tinct. descending from the same progenitor and kept dis IMG:content-1415.png:[blocks in formation] Hist. Eng ., ch. xxiv. The common subjects of our scribbling tribe." Roscommon. p. 19. could not constrain the will of their fellow tribesmen ." Gardiner & Mullinger : Introd. to Eng . Hist ., ch. ii. tribolet .] trib-lět, trib-o-lět, trib-ou-lět, s . [French 1. Forging : A mandrel used in forging tubes, nuts, and rings, and for other purposes. The nut having been cut from the bar, the hole is punched and enlarged by the triblet, which also serves as a handle while the nut is being finished on the anvil. In the case of a ring, the parts having been joined, the ring is fashioned and shaped on the triblet. 2. The mandrel in a machine for making lead pipe. tribune tri-bô-ni-oph-or-us, 8. [Gr. tribon a cloak, and phoros =bearing.]. Zool.: A genus of Limacide, with three species, from Australia. Mantle small, triangular; back with an almost imperceptible furrow; teeth with wavy edges.