pleb is cit a

Plural of plebiscitum. IMG:content-0403.jpg:[blocks in formation] = The plebiscitary confirmation makes the reform illusory. The Nation, May 12, 1870, p. 297. plebiscite (pleb'i-sit or -sēt), n. [F. plébiscite Sp. Pg. It. pleb is cito, chiefly a French usage. If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making? H. Spencer , Man vs. State, p. 14. Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. The word previously belonged, however, to the language of the civil law. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 310. plebiscitum (pleb-i-sītum), n.; pl. pleb is cit a (-tä). [L.: see plebiscite .] A law enacted in ancient Rome by the lower rank of citizens meeting in the a embly called the comitia tri but a , under the presidency of a tribune or some other plebeian magistrate; a decree of the plebs. At first these decrees bound only the plebs, but by a law generally a igned to 449 B. C., and confirmed by later legislation (339 and 286 B. c.), their effect was extended to the patricians. plebityt (pleb'i-ti), n. [ plebita (t-) s , the rank of a common citizen,