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n. An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates.

n. A protector or champion of the people.

n. A raised platform or dais from which a speaker addresses an assembly.

n. The usually domed or vaulted apse of a basilica.

n. See gallery.

n. an elected official in ancient Rome

n. a protector of the people

n. the domed or vaulted apse in a Christian church that houses the bishop’s throne

n. a place or an opportunity to speak, to express one's opinion, a platform

n. An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

n. Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

n. In Roman history, originally, a magistrate presiding over a tribe, or representing a tribe for certain purposes; specifically, a tribune of the people (tribunus plebis), an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, from the time of the secession (probably in 494 b. c.), to protect them from the oppression of the patricians or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts upon them by the senate and consuls.

n. Hence, one who upholds or defends popular rights; a champion of the people. In this sense the word is used as the name of various newspapers.

To regulate or manage by the authority of a tribune.

n. In a Roman basilica, the raised platform at one end of the auditorium, frequently in a small addition of semicircular plan to the main structure, which formed the official station of the pretor; the tribunal; hence, in Christian churches of basilican plan, the throne of the bishop (which originally occupied the place of the pretor's seat), and the part of the church containing it; hence, again, in Italian churches generally, any apse or structure of apsidal form. See cut under basilica.

n. A raised seat or stand; a platform; a dais.

n. Specifically— The throne of a bishop. See def 1.

n. A sort of pulpit or rostrum where a speaker stands to address an assembly, as in the French chamber of deputies.

n. (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests

n. the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne

"Note that the maniple of the centurial tribune is now at eighty percent strength, hence this maniple is usually assigned to kitchen duties."

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