tribune2 (tribun)

[F. tribune = Sp. Pg. It. tribuna, A nave of four enormous bays is stopped upon a vast octagonal space, from which, at the east, the north, and the south, are built out three pentagonal tribunes or apses, which, as seen from the outside, give to the church [Duomo of Florence] the common cruciform shape. C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 228. 2. A raised seat or stand; a platform; a dais. Mr. Lyon was seated on the school tribune or dais at his particular round table. George Eliot , Felix Holt, xxiv. Specifically- ( a ) The throne of a bishop. See def. 1. He remained some time before his presence was observed, when the monks conducted him to his tribune. Pre scott. ( Imp . Dict.) (b) A sort of pulpit or rostrum where a speaker stands to addre an a embly, as in the French chamber of deputies. IMG:content-0846.png:[blocks in formation] It. tri but a rio, This Mylo is one of the Ciclades, yles of Grece, and trybu [ ta ] rye bot he to the Turkes and to Uenyce. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 62. The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon. Tennyson, Geraint. 2. Of the nature of tribute; paid or due as tribute. Your tributary drops belong to woe, Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. Shak., R. and J., iii. 2. 103. Yea, so greatly are we indebted to this kinsman of death that we owe the better tributary half of our life to him;.. for sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Dekker , Gull's Hornbook, p. 61. 3. Bringing accretions, supplies, aid, or the like; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; specifically, of streams, affluent. The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish. Shak ., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 36. Concisene has been already considered as tributary to perspicuity and to precision; it is more conducive to A. Phelps , English Style, p. 245. energy than to either. II. n.; pl. tributaries (-riz). 1. A person or a state that pays tribute; one who or that which pays a stated sum to a conquering power, in acknowledgment of submi ion, or for the purchase of peace, security, and protection. They have brought him to be a tributary to them: viz., to pay a certain rate of elephants per annum. R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 434). Shak ., Hamlet, v. 2. 38. England was his faithful tributary . 2. In geog., an affluent; a river or other body of water which contributes its stream to another river, etc. A bayou emptying into the Red river is a tributary of the Mi i ippi, within the meaning of an insurance policy. Miller v. Insurance Co., 12 W. Va. 116.