The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tribunician \Trib`u*ni"cian\, Tribunitial \Trib`u*ni"tial\,
Tribunitian \Trib`u*ni*tian\, a. [L. tribunicius, tribunitius:
cf. F. tribunitien.]
Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as,
tribunitial power or authority.
--Dryden.
A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is
recognized to be wrong.
--Hare.
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to a Roman tribune.
Usage examples of "tribunician".
For what would have been the consequence if that rabble of shepherds and strangers, fugitives from their own countries, having, under the protection of an inviolable asylum, found liberty, or at least impunity, uncontrolled by the dread of regal authority, had begun to be distracted by tribunician storms, and to engage in contests with the fathers in a strange city, before the pledges of wives and children, and love of the very soil, to which it requires a length of time to become habituated, had united their affections.
But we have just had one of the oddest of all tribunician incidents, and the rumors are absolutely whizzing around.
It authorizes all the magistrates and consulars to protect the State against the tribunician veto, if you please.
But because he was a Roman and an officer with junior tribunician status-and was the owner of many decorations for valor-the young man was offered two alternatives.
Rome, it would appear, is the tribunician veto, and the real traitors the tribunes of the plebs.
Gabinius and the triumvirs without owning our tribunician inviolability.