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Decemviral
Decemviral \De*cem"vi*ral\, a. [L. decemviralis.] Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.
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decemviral
a. Pertaining to the decemvirs of ancient Rome.
Usage examples of "decemviral".
The memory of this had almost perished, so they renewed it with certain sacred rites revived from a distant past, and in addition to securing their inviolability by the sanctions of religion, they enacted a law that whoever offered violence to the magistrates of the plebs, whether tribunes, aediles, or decemviral judges, his person should be devoted to Jupiter, his possessions sold and the proceeds assigned to the temples of Ceres, Liber, and Liberal Jurists say that by this law no one was actually "sacrosanct," but that when injury was offered to any of those mentioned above the offender was "sacer.