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1. Capitoline, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1439
...Designating, of, or relating to the smallest of the hills of Rome or the temple which formerly stood at its summit. Also: designating the gods worshipped there, esp. Jupiter. Cf. Capitol...
2. dominion, n. View full entry c1430
...The power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority; lordship, sovereignty; rule, sway; control, influence....
3. eunuch, n. View full entry c1430
...A castrated person of the male sex; also, such a person employed as a harem attendant, or in Oriental courts and under the Roman emperors, charged with important affairs of state. Also...
4. immediately, adv. View full entry 1412-20
...Without intermediary, intervening agency, or medium; by direct agency; in direct or proximate connection or relation; so as to concern, interest, or affect directly, or intimately; directly....
5. mobile, n.1 View full entry a1475
...In full first mobile. In the medieval version of the Ptolemaic system: the outermost of the concentric spheres supposed to revolve around the earth; = primum mobile1....
6. mural, adj.1 View full entry ?a1439
...Designating a crown or (later also) a garland, wreath, etc., conferred as a mark of honour (originally by the ancient Romans) on the first soldier to scale the walls of a besieged...
7. naval crown, n. View full entry ?a1439
...A crown or garland given, originally by the Romans, to a person who achieved victory or distinction in a sea battle. Also: a depiction of such a crown, esp. as a crest...
8. obsidional, adj. View full entry ?a1439
...Of or relating to a siege; spec. designating a wreath of grass or weeds conferred as a mark of honour upon a Roman general who raised a siege, esp. in...
9. oracle, n. View full entry c1425
...In ancient Greece and Rome: the instrument, agency, or medium (usually a priest or a priestess) through which the gods were supposed to speak or prophesy; the mouthpiece of the gods. Also:...
10. † oval, adj.1 and n.2 View full entry ?a1439
...Of or relating to the ovation traditionally awarded to a military commander on his entry into Rome....
11. palaestra | palestra, n. View full entry c1425
...In ancient Greece and Rome: a place devoted to the public teaching and practice of wrestling and other athletic exercises; a wrestling school, a gymnasium. hist....
12. paterfamilias, n. View full entry c1475
...A male head of a family or household. Also fig....
13. pontifical, n. and adj. View full entry ?1435
...In pl. The robes of a bishop or priest; the vestments and insignia of a bishop, cardinal, or other high-ranking cleric....
14. praetor, n. View full entry ?a1439
...Roman Hist. One of the magistrates annually elected to the judiciary of Rome, subordinate to the consuls particularly in administration of the provinces. Cf. peregrine praetorperegrine5....
15. relegation, n. View full entry c1425
...The action of banishing; the state of temporary exile or banishment; spec. (Roman Hist.) banishment to a certain place at a distance from Rome for a limited time,...
16. rhetorician, n. View full entry c1425
...Chiefly Classical Hist. A professor or teacher of rhetoric; (also) a professional orator. Cf. rhetor13....
17. rural, adj. and n. View full entry c1425
...Of a person: living in the country as opposed to a town or city; engaged in country occupations; having the appearance or manners of a country person; (in early use also ...
18. sequel, n. View full entry c1420
...A train of followers, band of adherents, following, suit; rarely, a follower. In Feudal Law, the offspring, retinue, chattels, and appurtenances of a villein. Obs....
19. temperament, n. View full entry ?a1412
...A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements in a compound; the condition in which elements are combined in their due proportions....
20. usurpation, n. View full entry c1420
...Claim or assertion that is unwarranted or unauthorized; unjustified assumption, arrogation, or pretension....
