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. tribunician; relating to a tribune
Usage examples of "tribunitial".
The concession which followed of the tribunitial veto was only a further development.
Retain the dictatorship for a time, strengthen the plebeian element by ruthless proscriptions of patricians and by recruits from the provinces, unite the tribunitial, pontifical, and military powers in the imperator designated by the army, all elements existing in the constitution from an early day, and already developed in the Roman state, and you have the imperial constitution, which retained to the last the senate and consuls, though with less and less practical power.
Republican Rome attempted to guard against excessive centralism by the tribunitial veto, or by the organization of a negative or obstructive power.
Imperial Rome gradually swept away the tribunitial veto, concentrated all power in the hands of the emperor, became completely centralized, and fell.
The British government cannot be carried on by fair, honest, and honorable means, any more than could the Roman under the antagonism created by the tribunitial veto.
Retain the dictatorship for a time, strengthen the plebeian element by ruthless proscriptions of patricians and by recruits from the provinces, unite the tribunitial, pontifical, and military powers in the imperator designated by the army, all elements existing in the constitution from an early day, and already developed in the Roman state, and you have the imperial constitution, which retained to the last the senate and consuls, though with less and less practical power.