tribunal
[trahy-byoon-l, tri-]
- a court of justice.
- a place or seat of judgment.
- Also called tribune. a raised platform for the seats of magistrates, as in an ancient Roman basilica.
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Origin of tribunal
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Contemporary Examples
Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal.
Committee Chairman Ed Royce called for a tribunal to be established to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes.
Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing.
An act of parliament was passed in 1973 to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction to punish the perpetrators of the genocide.
Participating in this tribunal rewards players while cutting down on negativity.
Historical Examples
I know you, Evremonde; I saw you before the Tribunal to-day.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
Inform the Tribunal of what you did that day within the Bastille, citizen.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
After which he and his opponent bowed to the tribunal, and departed.
The tribunal was impressed: the members, silent, attentive, let the witness have her way.
A Nest of SpiesPierre Souvestre
It is a tribunal in which the priest is judge and the penitent a prisoner who pleads guilty.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
tribunal
- a court of justice or any place where justice is administered
- (in Britain) a special court, convened by the government to inquire into a specific matter
- a raised platform containing the seat of a judge or magistrate, originally that in a Roman basilica
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin tribūnus tribune 1
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Word Origin and History for tribunal
n.
mid-15c., from Old French tribunal (13c.), from Latin tribunal "platform for the seat of magistrates, elevation, embankment," from tribunus "official in ancient Rome, magistrate," literally "head of a tribe," from tribus (see tribe). Hence, a court of justice or judicial assembly (1580s).
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