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Definition of Comitial
1. a. Relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.
Definition of Comitial
1. Adjective. (context: in Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to a comitia ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) Of or pertaining to a political assembly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comitial
1. comitia [adj] - See also: comitia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comitial
Literary usage of Comitial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic by George Willis Botsford (1909)
"Naturally judicial business could be transacted on those comitial days on which
the assembly did not actually meet, or after its adjournment if time ..."
2. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1901)
"... that the senate could not be held on comitial days, had a saving clause, making
an exception for cases of urgency ; and cases of the senate's being held ..."
3. Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ: Nundinal Calendars of Ancient Italy, Nundinal by Edward Greswell (1854)
"On the comitial characters of January and February Roman UC 698 : and on the
Comida of this year. Three letters of Cicero are extant, addressed to P. ..."
4. Hermes by Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner, Georg Kaibel, Carl Robert, Friedrich Leo, Georg Wissowa (1873)
"Jan. kamen als comitial nicht in Betracht), wurden diese Beschlüsse gefasst, der
letzte am 7. Januar. Nun ist aber der 7. Januar, der fünfte dieser Tage, ..."
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