dicast
(in ancient Athens) a citizen eligible to sit as a judge.
Origin of dicast
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How to use dicast in a sentence
The Athenian dicasts were not barristers, but judges: they sat in panels (sometimes a panel of some hundreds) and judged.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsSocrates used to practice speaking, he who talked as he did to the tyrants, to the dicasts (judges), he who talked in his prison.
Among the citizens who served as jurors or dicasts, Solon was venerated generally as the author of the Athenian laws.
In ancient Athens, the dicasts, in giving their verdict, generally used balls of stone (psephi) or of metal (sponduli).
The administrators of the three great divisions of law are severally Archons, Merists, and Dicasts.
The Crown of Wild Olive | John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for dicast
/ (ˈdɪkæst) /
(in ancient Athens) a juror in the popular courts chosen by lot from a list of citizens
Origin of dicast
1Derived forms of dicast
- dicastic, adjective
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