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Centumviral

Centumviral \Cen*tum"vi*ral\, a. [L. centumvitalis.] Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.

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centumviral

a. Of or pertaining to the centumviri

Usage examples of "centumviral".

Ostensibly in the name of a loyal freedman, praising his master in conventional terms, it ran: To the shades of the departed, Gnaeus Rubirius Metellus, son of Tiberius, quaestor, legate, holder of three priesthoods, member of the centumviral court, aged fifty-seven: Julius Alexander, freedman, land agent, set this up to the kindest of patrons And Gnaeus Metellus Negrinus, to one who was well-beloved of him.

Since the centumviral court actually had a hundred and eighty judges and occasionally sat in full session, there would be plenty of room for onlookers, though I thought Marponius was going overboard.

For I was often forc'd to mingle some nice Calculations, (and even to demand the Register, and Counters,) while I us'd this Force and Sublimity, that a Centumviral Action suddenly took the Face of a private Cause: I gave a loose to the Passions of Anger, Indignation, and Sorrow.